BC 155.2 CAICain, Susan. Quiet : the power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking. 1st ed. New York : Crown Publishers, c2012.Explores the role introverts play in a world that is geared towards those who enjoy communicating with others and offers practical suggestions at how introverts can make sure their message is heard.

BC 301.451 GRIGriffin, John Howard, 1920-. Black like me. 35th anniversary ed. /. New York : Signet, [1996].The author, a white man, recounts his experiences when he darkened his skin and traveled through the South as an African-American man.

BC 305.235 COVCovey, Sean. The 7 habits of highly effective teens : the ultimate teenage success guide. New York : Simon & Schuster, c1998.Describes seven habits teenagers can cultivate to help them improve their self-images, build friendships, resist peer pressure, achieve goals, get along with parents, and make other positive changes in their lives.

BC 362.76 PELPelzer, David J. A child called "It" : one child's courage to survive. Deerfield Beach, Fla. : Health Communications, c1995.David Pelzer, victim of one of the worst child abuse cases in the history of California, tells the story of how he survived his mother's brutality and triumphed over his past.

BC 364.15 DUGDugard, Jaycee Lee, 1980-. A stolen life : a memoir. 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2011.Jaycee Dugard chronicles the eighteen years she spent in captivity, describing what happened after she was kidnapped at age eleven in 1991, the abuse she endured, the birth of her two daughters, the events leading up to her release, and her struggle to adjust to life once she was reunited with her family.

BC 364.16 ABAAbagnale, Frank W., 1948-. Catch me if you can : the amazing true story of the youngest and most daring con man in the history of fun and profit! 1st Broadway Books movie tie-in ed. New York : Broadway Books, 2002.Former con man Frank Abagnale, an authority on financial foul play, tells stories of the adventures he had while living the high life as a criminal.

BC 365.43 WIEWiebe, Rudy, 1934-. Stolen life : the journey of a Cree woman. 1st Vintage Canada ed. Toronto : Vintage Canada, 1999, c1998."This is a chronicle of justice and injustice, the true story of the events that put Yvonne Johnson behind bars for life at the age of twenty-seven. Above all, it is the unforgettable story of a Native woman who has broken a lifetime of silence to share the understandings that sustain her." -- cover.

BC 371.82 MORMortenson, Greg. Three cups of tea : One man's mission to promote peace...one school at a time. New York : Viking, 2006.One man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti-American reaches of Asia: in 1993 Greg Mortenson was an American mountain-climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan's Karakoram. After he was taken in and nursed back to health by the people of a Pakistani village, he promised to return one day and build them a school. From that rash, earnest promise grew one of the most incredible humanitarian campaigns of our time--Mortenson's one-man mission to counteract extremism by building schools, especially for girls, throughout the breeding ground of the Taliban. In a region where Americans are often feared and hated, he has survived kidnapping, fatwas issued by enraged mullahs, death threats, and wrenching separations from his wife and children. But his success speaks for itself--at last count, his Central Asia Institute had built fifty-five schools.--From publisher description.

BC 371.822 MORMortenson, Greg. Three cups of tea : one man's mission to promote peace--one school at a time. New York : Penguin Books, 2007, c2006.Greg Mortenson recounts the experiences he had while trying to help impoverished villages in Pakistan's Karakoram Himalaya build schools for their children.

BC 371.823 MORMortenson, Greg. Stones into schools : promoting peace with books, not bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan. New York : Viking, 2009.Greg Mortenson describes his efforts to promote peace throughout the world, and details how he was able to establish over 130 schools--mostly for girls--in remote regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan with the backing of the Central Asia Institute--a nonprofit organization.

BC 371.829 SELSellars, Bev, 1955-. They called me number one : secrets and survival at an Indian residential school. Vancouver : Talonbooks, c2013."In the first full-length memoir to be published out of St. Joseph's Mission at Williams Lake, British Columbia, Zat'sull chief Bev Sellars tells of three generation of women who attended the school, interweaving personal histories of her grandmother and her mother with her own"--Page [4] of cover.

BC 616.027 SKLSkloot, Rebecca, 1972-. The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks. 1st pbk. ed. New York : Broadway Paperbacks, c2011.Examines the experiences of the children and husband of Henrietta Lacks, who, twenty years after her death from cervical cancer in 1951, learned doctors and researchers took cells from her cervix without consent which were used to create the immortal cell line known as the HeLa cell; provides an overview of Henrietta's life; and explores issues of experimentation on African-Americans and bioethics.

BC 616.08 MATMaté, Gabor. When the body says no : the cost of hidden stress. Toronto : A.A. Knopf Canada, 2003.?Maté carefully explains the biological mechanisms that are activated when stress and trauma exert a powerful influence on the body, and he backs up his claims with compelling evidence from the field.... [Readers] will be grateful for the final chapter, ?The Seven A?s of Healing,? in which Maté presents an open formula for healing and the prevention of illness resulting from hidden stress.? -- Quill & Quire. ?[An] enthralling exploration of the relationship between stress and disease. . . Maté probes deeply into the life histories and psyches of [his] many patients."-- The Edmonton Journal. ?His medical background and lucid writing style make complex biological processes accessible to non-scientific readers.? -- The Gazette (Montreal.

BC 616.8 CAHCahalan, Susannah. Brain on fire : my month of madness. New York : Simon &Schuster, 2012.The author relates what she underwent during a month-long hospital stay during which she was diagnosed with encephalitis and discusses how the autoimmune disease affected her mental stability and her hospitalization influenced her life and family.

BC 618.920 PERPerry, Bruce Duncan, 1955-. The boy who was raised as a dog : and other stories from a child psychiatrist's notebook : what traumatized children can teach us about loss, love, and healing. New York : Basic Books, 2008, c2006.Tina's world -- For your own good -- Stairway to heaven -- Skin hunger -- The coldest heart -- The boy who was raised as a dog -- Satanic panic -- The raven -- "Mom is lying. Mom is hurting me. Please call the police" -- The kindness of children -- Healing communities. Child psychiatrist Bruce Perry shares the stories of trauma and transformation he has encountered in his line of work, describing what happens to a child's brain when exposed to extreme stress and how innovative treatments are helping those children heal and become healthy adults.

BC 741.5 LEWLewis, John, 1940 February 21-. March. Marietta, GA : Top Shelf Productions, [2013].Presents in graphic novel format the life of Georgia congressman John Lewis, focusing on his youth in rural Alabama, his meeting with Martin Luther King Jr., and the birth of the Nashville Student Movement.

BC 741.5 STEStevenson, Noelle. Nimona. 1st ed. New York : HarperTeen, 2015."Nimona is an impulsive young shapeshifter with a knack for villainy. Lord Ballister Blackheart is a villain with a vendetta. As sidekick and supervillain, Nimona and Lord Blackheart are about to wreak some serious havoc. Their mission: prove to the kingdom that Sir Ambrosius Goldenloin and his buddies at the Institution of Law Enforcement and Heroics aren't the heroes everyone thinks they are. But as small acts of mischief escalate into a vicious battle, Lord Blackheart realizes that Nimona's powers are as murky and mysterious as her past. And her unpredictable wild side might be more dangerous than he is willing to admit"--From publisher.

BC 741.5 WATWatts, Irene N. Good-bye Marianne. Plattsburgh, N.Y. : Tundra Books, c1998.Marianne Kohn, a Jewish girl living in Berlin in 1938, watches as the Nazi regime tears her family and community apart, until finally she is forced to leave her mother and her home and travel to safety in England.

BC 741.5 WATWatts, Irene N. Remember me. Toronto : Tundra Books ;, c2000.A fictionalized account of a young Jewish girl's struggle to find peace in wartime Britain after she escapes from Nazi Germany, based on the author's own childhood experiences.

BC 780.92 ANDAnderson, M. T. Symphony for the city of the dead : Dmitri Shostakovich and the siege of Leningrad. 1st ed. 2015. Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2015."An account of the Siege of Leningrad reveals the role played by Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich and his Leningrad Symphony in rallying and commemorating their fellow citizens"--OCLC.

BC 796.334 FOEFoer, Franklin. How soccer explains the world : an unlikely theory of globalization. 1st Harper Perennial ed. New York : Harper Perennial, 2005.How soccer explains the gangster's paradise -- How soccer explains the pornography of sects -- How soccer explains the Jewish question -- How soccer explains the sentimental hooligan -- How soccer explains the survival of the top hats -- How soccer explains the black Carpathians -- How soccer explains the new oligarchs -- How soccer explains the discreet charm of bourgeois nationalism -- How soccer explains Islam's hope -- How soccer explains the American culture wars. "Soccer is a perfect window into the crosscurrents of today's world ... Franklin Foer takes us on a tour through the world of soccer, shattering the myths of our new global age along the way"--jacket.

BC 796.42 MCDMcDougall, Christopher, 1962-. Born to run : a hidden tribe, superathletes, and the greatest race the world has never seen. 1st Vintage Books ed. New York : Vintage Books, 2011, c2009.The author describes his work with Caballo Blanco, an outsider who befriended the Tarahumara Indians, in which the two men organized a running event between the tribesmen, who are considered to have superhuman running abilities, and Americans, including a ultramarathoner, a surfer, and others; and includes facts about techniques and the history of running.

BC 796.51 RALRalston, Aron. 127 hours : between a rock and a hard place. 1st Atria Paperback ed. New York : Atria Paperback, 2010, c2004.The author recounts his harrowing experience of being trapped for six days in Blue John Canyon in Utah and having to amputate his own right arm in order to save his life.

BC 796.52 KRAKrakauer, Jon. Into thin air : a personal account of the Mount Everest disaster. New York : Villard, c1997.The author relates his experience of climbing Mount Everest during its deadliest season and examines what it is about the mountain that makes people willingly subject themselves to such risk, hardship, and expense.

BC 796.52 KRAKrakauer, Jon. Into thin air : a personal account of the Mount Everest disaster. 1st Anchor Books trade pbk. ed. New York : Anchor Books, 1999.The author relates his experience of climbing Mount Everest during its deadliest season and examines what it is about the mountain that makes people willingly subject themselves to such risk, hardship, and expense.

BC 796.52 MACMacdonald, Warren, 1965-. A test of will : one man's extraordinary story of survival. Vancouver ; : Greystone Books ;, c2004.Warren Macdonald recounts how his life was forever changed after what should have been a two-day hike up Mount Bowen became a living nightmare when he was trapped for days by a massive slab of rock.

BC 809.3 PATPaton, Alan. Cry, the beloved country. 1st Scribner trade pbk. ed. New York : Scribner, 2003, c1948.Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo travels to Johannesburg on an errand for a friend and to visit his son, Absalom, only to learn Absalom has been accused of murdering white city engineer and social activist Arthur Jarvis and stands very little chance of receiving mercy.

BC 823.914 FOLFollett, Ken. Pillars of the earth. 1st edition. New York : Morrow, c1989.The ambitious prior of Kingsbridge, England, dreams of building the greatest Gothic cathedral in the world, and the struggle to construct it leads to a battle between good and evil in twelfth-century England.

BC 917 KRAKrakauer, Jon. Into the wild. 1st Anchor Books ed. New York : Anchor Books, 1997.Tells the story of Chris McCandless, a twenty-four-year-old who walked into the Alaskan wilderness on an idealistic journey and was found dead of starvation four months later. Attempts to discover what led the young man to that point.

BC 920.72 CHAMarina Chapman, 2013. The Girl with No Name : The True Story of a Girl Who Lived with Monkeys. Vancouver, BC : Greystone Books Ltd, 2013.A young girl who is abducted and abandoned in the Colombian jungle. She spends five years living with a family of monkeys before being found and sold in to slavery. This is her truly astonishing story.

BC 920.72 LEMGayle Tzemach Lemmon. The Dressmaker of Khair Khana : Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep them Safe. London : Harper Collins, 2011.The remarkable story of an unlikley entrepreneur who, against all odds, saved her family and inspired her community in Afghanistan.

BC 940.4144 TUCTuchman, Barbara Wertheim. The Guns of August. New York : The Macmillan Company, 1962.A funeral -- "Let the last man on the right brush the channel with his sleeve" -- "The shadow of Sedan" -- "A single British soldier ..." -- The Russian steam roller -- August 1: Berlin -- August 1: Paris and London -- Ultimatum in Brussels -- "Home before the leaves fall" -- "Goeben ... and enemy then flying" -- Liege and Alsace -- BEF to the continent -- Sambre et Meuse -- Debacle: Lorraine, Ardennes, Charleroi, Mons -- "The Cossacks are coming!" -- Tannenberg -- The flames of Louvain -- Blue water, blockade, and the great neutral -- Retreat -- The front is Paris -- Von Kluck's turn -- "Gentlemen, we will fight on the Marne" -- Afterward. In August, 1914 began World War I. In that opening month, war was waged on a scale unsurpassed, with results that have determined the shape of the world we live in today. Intensive study of the background of the first World War, and of the battles of Liege, Tannenberg, Mons and others fought during the first thirty days.

BC 940.53 EDSEdsel, Robert M. The monuments men : Allied heros, Nazi thieves, and the greatest treasure hunt in history. 1st trade ed. New York : Center Street, 2010, c2009.Presents an account of those who were part of a special force of American and British curators, art historians, museum curators, and other experts who risked their lives to prevent the destruction of cultural artifacts and structures while also trying to locate missing items that had been stolen by the Nazis during World War II.

BC 940.53 WIEWiesel, Elie, 1928-. Night. 1st ed. of this translation. New York : Hill and Wang, 2006.Presents a true account of the author's experiences as a Jewish boy in a Nazi concentration camp.

BC 940.531 AVEAvey, Denis. The man who broke into Auschwitz : a true story of World War II. 1st Da Capo Press pbk. ed. Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, 2012, c2011.Tells the true story of a British soldier who was held in a POW labor camp in the summer of 1944 and willingly smuggled himself into the Buna-Monowitz concentration camp--known as Auschwitz III--to witness firsthand the cruelty there.

BC 958.104 NORNordland, Rod. The lovers : Afghanistan's Romeo & Juliet : the true story of how they defied their families and escaped an honor killing. 1st ed. New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2016].Under the Gaze of the Buddhas -- Dead Father's Daughter -- Zakia Makes Her Move -- A Rabbi Among the Mullahs -- A Beautiful Place to Hide -- Mystery Benefactor -- Honor Hunters -- The Irreconcilables -- Birds in a Cage -- Reluctant Celebrities -- Back to the Hindu Kush -- Mullah Mohammad Jan -- In the Land of the Bottom-Feeders -- A Dog with No Name. "An astonishingly powerful and profoundly moving story of a young couple willing to risk everything for love that puts a human face on the ongoing debate about women's rights in the Muslim world. Zakia and Ali were from different tribes, but they grew up on neighboring farms in the hinterlands of Afghanistan. By the time they were young teenagers, Zakia, strikingly beautiful and fiercely opinionated, and Ali, shy and tender, had fallen in love. Defying their families, sectarian differences, cultural conventions, and Afghan civil and Islamic law, they ran away together only to live under constant threat from Zakia's large and vengeful family, who have vowed to kill her to restore the family's honor. They are still in hiding. Despite a decade of American good intentions, women in Afghanistan are still subjected to some of the worst human rights violations in the world. Rod Nordland, then the Kabul bureau chief of the New York Times, had watched these abuses unfold for years when he came upon Zakia and Ali, and has not only chronicled their plight, but has also shepherded them from danger. The Lovers will do for women's rights generally what Malala's story did for women's education. It is an astonishing story about self-determination and the meaning of love that illustrates, as no policy book could, the limits of Western influence on fundamentalist Islamic culture and, at the same time, the need for change."--provided by Amazon.com.

BC 966.04 BEABeah, Ishmael, 1980-. A long way gone : memoirs of a boy soldier. Vancouver, B.C. : Douglas & McIntyre Ltd, 2007.Ishmael Beah describes his experiences after he was driven from his home by war in Sierra Leone and picked up by the government army at the age of thirteen, serving as a soldier for three years before being removed from fighting by UNICEF and eventually moving to the United States.

BC 973.049 MENMendelsohn, Daniel Adam, 1960-. The lost : a search for six of six million. 1st Harper Perennial ed. New York : Harper Perennial, 2007.The author shares the story of his quest to learn the fate of six relatives who died in the Holocaust, telling of his discovery of a cache of letters that chronicled his great uncle Shmiel's desperate attempts to get himself, his wife, and four daughters out of Poland prior to World War II, and discussing the effects of the investigation on his relationships with his family and religion.

BC AKPAkpan, Uwem. Say you're one of them. 1st Back Bay pbk. ed. New York : Back Bay Books, 2009, c2008.An ex-mas feast -- Fattening for Gabon -- What language is that? -- Luxurious hearses -- My parent's bedroom. A collection of short stories by Uwem Akpan that celebrate the resilience and wisdom of children in third world countries.

BC DAVDavis, Lauren B., 1955-. The radiant city. Trade paperback edition. Toronto : HarperPerennial, 2006.Scarred by his experiences as a war correspondent, Matthew fleesto Paris to heal and forget—even as he must stir up the past to write thememoir he’s promised to his impatient literary agent. Resurrecting afriendship with Jack, a Vietnam vet and ex-mercenary, Matthew enters Jack’salcohol-dimmed world of shadowy bars and calculating lovers. But there is alsoSaida—beautiful, damaged and proud—who fled Lebanon with her family and nowruns a café. Matthew is drawn to her kindness, and to her fierce love for herteenage son, who is growing into manhood on the treacherous streets of the NorthAfrican quarter.--amazon.ca.

BC FIC ALBAlbom, Mitch, 1958-. The five people you meet in heaven. 1st ed. New York : Hyperion, c2003.A bitter eighty-three-year-old war veteran who believes his life is meaningless dies while trying to save a little girl's life and finds himself in heaven, where five people from his past--some loved ones, some strangers--explain what his years on Earth really meant, and whether or not he succeeded in saving the child.

BC FIC ALIAlison, Rosie. The Very Thought of You. Toronto : Anchor Canada, 2009.As Hitler prepares to invade Poland, many children are evacuated from London to escape the impending Blitz. Torn from her mother, eight-year-old Anna Sands is relocated with other children to a large Yorkshire estate. This title tells a story of love, loss and complicated loyalties, combining a narrative with subtle psychological observation.

BC FIC ALLAllende, Isabel. City of the beasts. 1st Harper Trophy edition. New York : HarperTrophy, 2004, c2002.Fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his individualistic grandmother on an expedition to find a humanoid Beast in the Amazon, and experiences ancient wonders and a supernatural world as he tries to avert disaster for the Indians.

BC FIC ALLAllende, Isabel. Kingdom of the Golden Dragon. 1st Harper Trophy special paperback edition. New York : HarperTrophy, 2005, c2004.Sixteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his grandmother, a writer for a geography magazine, to the remote Forbidden Kingdom in the Himalayas to help locate a sacred statue of a golden dragon before it is stolen by a greedy outsider.

BC FIC ALMAlmond, David, 1951-. A song for Ella Grey. 1st American ed. 2015. New York : Delacorte Press, 2015.Claire witnesses a love so dramatic it is as if Ella Grey has been captured and taken from her, but the loss of her best friend to the arms of Orpheus is nothing compared to the loss she feels when Ella is taken from the world in this modern take on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice set in Northern England.

BC FIC ANDAnderson-Dargatz, Gail, 1963-. The cure for death by lightning. Toronto : Vintage Canada, 1996.Beth Weeks, 14, escapes her abusive father during the days of shortages in World War II by reading her mother's scrapbook and visiting a friend on a reservation near her farm..

BC FIC ANDAnderson, Laurie Halse. The impossible knife of memory. New York, N.Y. : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), 2014."Hayley Kincaid and her father move back to their hometown to try a 'normal' life, but the horrors he saw in the war threaten to destroy their lives"--Provided by publisher.

BC FIC ANDAnderson, Laurie Halse. Speak. New York : Puffin, 2001, c1999.A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.

BC FIC ANOGo ask Alice. 1st Simon Pulse ed. New York : Simon Pulse, 2006, c1971.Based on the diary of a fifteen-year-old drug user chronicling her struggle to escape the pull of the drug world.

BC FIC ANOGo ask Alice. Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, [1971].Based on the diary of a fifteen-year-old drug user chronicling her struggle to escape the pull of the drug world.

BC FIC ARDArden, Katherine. The bear and the nightingale : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Del Rey, c2017."At the edge of the Russian wilderness, winter lasts most of the year and the snowdrifts grow taller than houses. But Vasilisa doesn't mind she spends the winter nights huddled around the embers of a fire with her beloved siblings, listening to her nurse's fairy tales. Above all, she loves the chilling story of Frost, the blue-eyed winter demon, who appears in the frigid night to claim unwary souls. Wise Russians fear him, her nurse says, and honor the spirits of house and yard and forest that protect their homes from evil. After Vasilisa's mother dies, her father goes to Moscow and brings home a new wife. Fiercely devout, city-bred, Vasilisa's new stepmother forbids her family from honoring the household spirits. The family acquiesces, but Vasilisa is frightened, sensing that more hinges upon their rituals than anyone knows. And indeed, crops begin to fail, evil creatures of the forest creep nearer, and misfortune stalks the village. All the while, Vasilisa's stepmother grows ever harsher in her determination to groom her rebellious stepdaughter for either marriage or confinement in a convent. As danger circles, Vasilisa must defy even the people she loves and call on dangerous gifts she has long concealed this, in order to protect her family from a threat that seems to have stepped from her nurse's most frightening tales. "-- Publisher.

BC FIC ARNArnold, David, 1981-. Mosquitoland. New York : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), 2015."When she learns that her mother is sick in Ohio, Mim confronts her demons on a thousand-mile odyssey from Mississippi that redefines her notions of love, loyalty, and what it means to be sane"--Provided by publisher.

BC FIC ASHAsher, Jay, 1975-. Thirteen reasons why. [New York, N.Y.] : Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House, [2017].High school student Clay Jensen receives a box in the mail containing seven cassette tapes recorded by his crush, Hannah Baker, who committed suicide, and spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death.

BC FIC ATWAtwood, Margaret Eleanor, 1939-. Alias Grace. Toronto : M&S, 1996.A ficitonalized account of the story of Grace Marks, a sixteen-year-old Canadian girl who received a life sentence in 1843 for allegedly taking part in the murder of her employer and his lover, but whose case continued to stir debate throughout her prison stay, resulting in her release in 1872.

BC FIC AUSAusten, Jane, 1775-1817. Persuasion. New York : Premier Classics ;, 2006.Anne Elliot, persuaded by family and friends that the charming and handsome Frederick Wentworth is not worthy of her regard, questions her decision to send him away until he returns seven years later, his circumstances much improved.

BC FIC AUSAusten, Jane, 1775-1817. Pride and prejudice. 3rd ed. New York : Premier Classics, 2007.Presents the annotated text of "Pride and Prejudice," a novel about a spirited young woman in early nineteenth-century England who must cope with the courship of a snobbish gentleman as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters; and includes backgrounds and sources, as well as eighteen critical essays.

BC FIC AUSAusten, Jane, 1775-1817. Sense and sensibility. New York ; : Knopf, 2006.Two sisters of opposing temperaments share the pangs of tragic love, and their mutual suffering brings a closer understanding between the two sisters, and true love finally triumphs.

BC FIC AYNRand, Ayn. Atlas shrugged. 50th anniversary ed. New York : Signet, [1996], c1985.A satire on the follies and dangers of collectivism in which the United States is faced with the prospect of economic collapse when the country's leading innovators and industrialists go into hiding.

BC FIC AYNRand, Ayn. The Fountainhead. 50th anniversary ed. New York : Signet, [1993].The story of a gifted young architect, his violent battle against conventional standards, and his explosive love affair with a beautiful woman who struggles to defeat him.

BC FIC BALBall, John Dudley, 1911-. In the heat of the night. 1st Carroll & Graf trade pbk. ed. New York : Carroll & Graf, 2001, c1965.Local police in a small Southern town believe they have their man when they nab African-American Virgil Tibbs as a suspect in a murder, so they are shocked to discover Tibbs is not a killer but a homicide detective from California, and they are further dismayed to realize Tibbs is their best hope for solving the crime.

BC FIC BASBassoff, Leah, 1971-. Lost girl found. Toronto : Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press, 2014.When war comes to a small village in southern Sudan, young Poni must run for her life and begins a long and dangerous trek across the east African countryside with thousand of refugees to a camp in Kenya, but along the way many die from starvation, land mines, wild animals and despair.

BC FIC BELBell, William, 1945-. Stones : a novel. [Toronto] : Seal Books, 2003, c2001.Garnet Havelock knows what it's like to be on the outside, not one of the crowd. Then a mysterious girl transfers to his school and Garnet thinks he might have found the woman of his dreams-- if only he could get her to talk to him. At the same time, he becomes caught up in a mystery centered in his community. As he and Raphaella draw closer to the truth, they uncover a horrifying chapter in his town's history, and learn how deep-seated prejudices and persecution from the past can still reverberate in the present.

BC FIC BELBell, William, 1945-. Zack. [Toronto, ON] : Seal Books, 1998.The son of a Jewish father and black mother, high school senior Zack has never been allowed to meet his mother's family, but after doing a research project on a former slave, he travels from his home in Canada to Natchez, Mississippi to find his grandfather.

BC FIC BENBennett, Cherie. Anne Frank and me. New York : Puffin, 2002, c2001.After suffering a concussion while on a class trip to a Holocaust exhibit, Nicole finds herself living the life of a Jewish teenager in Paris during the Nazi occupation.

BC FIC BIGBiggs, Sharon, 1966-. A mad, wicked folly. New York, N.Y. : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), 2014.In 1909 London, as the world of debutante balls and high society obligations closes in around her, seventeen-year-old Victoria must figure out just how much is she willing to sacrifice to pursue her dream of becoming an artist.

BC FIC BLABlankman, Anne. Prisoner of night and fog. 1st ed. New York, NY : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2014].In 1930s Munich, the favorite niece of rising political leader Adolph Hitler is torn between duty and love after meeting a fearless and handsome young Jewish reporter.

BC FIC BOWBow, Erin. Sorrow's knot. 1st edition. New York, N.Y. : Arthur A. Levine Books, 2013.Otter is a girl of the Shadowed People, a tribe of women, and she is born to be a binder, a woman whose power it is to tie the knots that bind the dead--but she is also destined to remake her world.

BC FIC BOYBoyden, Joseph, 1966-. The Orenda. Toronto : Penguin Group, c2013.When his native guides abandon him terrified of the rampaging Iroquois, Jesuit missionary Christophe finds himself alone in the Canadian wilderness, but is soon captured by the Huron warrior and elder Bird along with an Iroquois girl named Snow Falls.

BC FIC BOYBoyne, John, 1971-. The boy in the striped pajamas : a fable. 1st trade paperback edition. Oxford [England] ; : David Fickling Books, [2007], c2006.Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.

BC FIC BRABradbury, Ray, 1920-. Fahrenheit 451. 1st trade ed. New York : Ballantine Books, 1996.A bookburning official in a future fascist state finds out that books are a vital part of a culture he never knew. He clandestinely pursues reading, until he is betrayed.

BC FIC BRABrashares, Ann. The second summer of the sisterhood. New York : Delacorte Press, [2004], c2003.A sequel to "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" in which the four girls, now sixteen, embark on another summer of travels and life lessons charmed by a shared pair of seemingly magical thrift-store jeans.

BC FIC BRABrashares, Ann. The sisterhood of the traveling pants. 1st Dell Laurel-Leaf ed. New York : Dell Laurel-Leaf, 2004, c2001.Carmen decides to discard an old pair of jeans, but Tibby, Lena, and Bridget think they are great and decide that whoever the pants fit best will get them. When the jeans fit everyone perfectly, a sisterhood and a memorable summer begin.

BC FIC BRABray, Libba. A great and terrible beauty. New York : Delacorte Press, [2005], c2003.After the suspicious death of her mother in 1895, sixteen-year-old Gemma returns to England, after many years in India, to attend a finishing school where she becomes aware of her magical powers and ability to see into the spirit world.

BC FIC BRABray, Libba. Rebel angels. New York : Delacorte, c2005.Gemma and her friends from the Spence Academy return to the realms to defeat her foe, Circe, and to bind the magic that has been released.

BC FIC BREBreslaw, Anna. Scarlett Epstein hates it here. [New York] : Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2016]."When Scarlett's beloved TV show is canceled and her longtimecrush, Gideon, is sucked out of her orbit and into the dark and distant world of Populars, Scarlett turns to the fanfic message boards for comfort. This time, though, her subjects aren't the swoon-worthy stars of her fave series -- they're the real-life kids from her high school."--Provided by publisher.

BC FIC BROBrontë, Emily, 1818-1848. Wuthering Heights. New York : Premier Classics, c2006.Presents Emily Bronte's classic romantic novel about the tragic love affair between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, the daughter of his benefactor, and includes over 760 SAT vocabulary words and pronunciation guide.

BC FIC BROBrooks, Martha, 1944-. True confessions of a heartless girl. Toronto ; : Douglas & McIntyre ;, c2002.The arrival in a small Manitoba town of a troubled seventeen-year-old girl forces several residents to finally confront and overcome their own individual tragedies.

BC FIC BROBrown, Dan, 1964-. The Da Vinci code : a novel. New York : Doubleday, c2003.Investigating the murder of a Louvre curator, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon and French cryptologist Sophie Neveu find clues painted into a Da Vinci work, inadvertently uncovering a plot involving the Holy Grail and the secret society known as the Priory of Sion.

BC FIC BROBrown, Dan, 1964-. The Da Vinci code : a novel. 1st large print ed. New York : Random House Large Print, c2003.Investigating the murder of a Louvre curator, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon and French cryptologist Sophie Neveu find clues painted into a Da Vinci work, inadvertently uncovering a plot involving the Holy Grail and the secret society known as the Priory of Sion.

BC FIC BROBrown, Dan, 1964-. Deception point. Pocket Books premium ed. New York : Pocket Books, 2006, c2001.White House intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton is thrust into a life-or-death situation when she travels to the Arctic to investigate the discovery of a rare meteorite that might prove the existence of extraterrestrial life, and finds instead evidence of scientific trickery.

BC FIC BROBrown, Dan, 1964-. Digital fortress. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1998.Cryptographer Susan Fletcher finds herself fighting for her country, her life, and the life of the man she loves when she is called in by the National Security Agency to decipher a mysterious code and discovers a plot that has the power to cripple U.S. intelligence.

BC FIC BUCBuck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973. The good earth. Washington Square Press trade paperback edition. New York : Washington Square Press, 2004, c1931.The story of a Chinese peasant and his passionate, dogged accumulation of land during famine, drought, and revolution.

BC FIC BURBurgess, Anthony, 1917-1993. A clockwork orange. New York : Penguin Group, 2000, c1962.A violent teen named Alex is "rehabilitated" by the government in this satirical view of the future of the industrialized world.

BC FIC CARCarmichael, Jodi. Forever Julia. Winnipeg, Man. : Great Plains Teen Fiction, 2015."Six months ago, Julia's life was perfect. Then her dad died. Now she lives with her grieving mother and sick grandmother in a puny apartment above their bookstore. After a dark bout of depression, Julia is fragile and mourns both her father and her old life. But she has one thing to be happy about: Jeremy, the most popular boy at school, has chosen her. Jeremy's love for Julia is passionate, even obsessive. As she grows closer to Jeremy, Julia pushes her disapproving friends and family away. But Jeremy only becomes more controlling and Julia has to decide what lines cannot be crossed."--From publisher.

BC FIC CHBChbosky, Stephen. The perks of being a wallflower. New York : MTV Books/Pocket Books, c1999.Charlie, a freshman in high school, explores the dilemmas of growing up through a collection of letters he sends to an unknown receiver.

BC FIC CHEChevalier, Tracy. Girl with a pearl earring. New York : Dutton, c1999.The life of sixteen-year-old Griet is transformed forever when she goes to work as a maid in the home of Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer, and catches the eye of the famous artist.

BC FIC CHOCholdenko, Gennifer, 1957-. Al Capone does my shirts. New York : Puffin Books, 2006, c2004.A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister.

BC FIC CHOChoy, Wayson, 1939-. The jade peony : a novel. 1st edition. New York : Picador, 1997.Describes the life of a Chinese immigrant family living in Vancouver, Canada's Chinatown during the years before World War II. The three children in the story find adult friends who take the places of their endlessly working parents.

BC FIC CLICline, Ernest. Ready player one. 1st paperback edition. New York : Broadway Books, c2011.In the year 2044, Wade Watts, like the rest of humanity, chooses to escape reality and spends his waking hours in the limitless, utopian virtual world of the OASIS, but when Wade stumbles upon the first of the fiendish puzzles set up by OASIS creator James Halliday he finds he must compete with thousands of others--including those willing to commit murder--in order to claim a prize of massive fortune.

BC FIC CLIClinton, Cathryn. A stone in my hand. 1st pbk. ed. Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2004, c2002.Eleven-year-old Malaak and her family are touched by the violence in Gaza between Jews and Palestinians when first her father disappears and then her older brother is drawn to the Islamic Jihad.

BC FIC COECoelho, Paulo. Veronika decides to die. 1st Perennial ed. New York : Perennial, 2001, c1999.Twenty-four-year-old Veronika wakes up in a mental hospital after a failed suicide attempt and learns that the pills she took damaged her heart so severely that she has only days to live, and in the week that follows, Veronika learns some important lessons about life and love.

BC FIC COECoelho, Paulo. The witch of Portobello : a novel. 1st U.S. ed. New York : HarperCollins Publishers, 2007.A novel presented from multiple viewpoints, told by the interviewees of a bereaved lover trying to collect the life story of the late Athena, a Gypsy orphan raised by a Lebanese Christian couple and shaped by journeys in Europe and the Middle East before she settled in London, where her magical gifts, cult following, and refusal to live by the rules of her time or abandon her dreams made her the victim of a witch hunt.

BC FIC COLCollins, Suzanne. Catching fire. 1st ediiton. New York : Scholastic Press, 2009.By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion.

BC FIC COLCollins, Suzanne. The Hunger Games. 1st edition. New York : Scholastic Press, 2008.Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen accidentally becomes a contender in the annual Hunger Games, a grave competition hosted by the Capitol where young boys and girls are pitted against one another in a televised fight to the death.

BC FIC COLCollins, Suzanne. Mockingjay. 1st edition. New York : Scholastic Press, 2010.Katniss Everdeen, having survived the Hunger Games twice, learns she and her family and friends are in danger because the Capitol holds her responsible for the unrest and races against time to protect those she cares about and the people of District 12.

BC FIC CONConrad, Joseph, 1857-1924. Heart of darkness. Dover ed. New York : Knopf, 1993.Marlow comes face to face with the corruption and despair that lies at the heart of human existence when he undertakes a journey on behalf of a Belgian trading company up the Congo River in search of the tormented white ivory trader, Kurtz.

BC FIC CROCross, Gillian. Calling a dead man. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2002.When John, a British demolitions expert, is supposedly killed blowing up a building in Siberia, his fiancee Annie insists on investigating, despite being in a wheelchair, and John's teenage sister Hayley goes along and finds that the Russian Mafia is involved--Bowker.

BC FIC CRUCrutcher, Chris. Ironman : a novel. New York : Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers, [1996], c1995.While training for a triathlon, seventeen-year-old Bo attends an anger management group at school which leads him to examine his relationship with his father.

BC FIC CRUCrutcher, Chris. Staying fat for Sarah Byrnes. 1st HarperTempest ed. New York : HarperTempest, 2003, c1993.The daily class discussions about the nature of man, the existence of God, abortion, organized religion, suicide and other contemporary issues serve as a backdrop for a high-school senior's attempt to answer a friend's dramatic cry for help.

BC FIC CULCullen, Seán, 1965-. The Prince of Neither Here nor There. Toronto : Puffin Canada, 2009.The first book of The Chronicles of the Misplaced Prince is set in a world where Faeries exist, hidden in the cracks of our reality. Brendan, the hero of the stories, discovers that he is a Faerie who was lost in the human world. As a teenager in his first year of high school, he must come to grips with the fact that the family he has grown up with isn't really his family at all.

BC FIC DANDance, Jennifer, 1949-. Paint. Toronto : Dundurn, [2015].In the late 1800s, a Lakota boy finds an orphaned mustang and names her Paint. Together, they learn to hunt and face their fears, but they are separated by an attack on the Lakota village and Paint passes through several owners before finding a home with English pioneers on the Canadian prairie.

BC FIC DASDashner, James, 1972-. The death cure. 1st trade pbk. ed. New York : Delacorte Press, c2011.In a final effort to complete the blueprint for the cure, Thomas must rely on the Gladers, with full memories restored, but Thomas does not trust Wicked and he remembers much more than they realize.

BC FIC DASDashner, James, 1972-. The kill order. 1st pbk. ed. New York : Delacorte Press, 2013.Mark and Trina struggle to survive as modern civilization is destroyed by sun flares and mutating diseases.

BC FIC DASDashner, James, 1972-. The maze runner. 1st edition. New York : Delacorte Press, c2009.Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape.

BC FIC DASDashner, James, 1972-. The Scorch trials. 1st ed. New York : Delacorte Press, c2010.Thomas and the Gladers, having solved the Maze, plan on returning to their lives, but instead find the earth a wasteland with Cranks roaming the desert in search of their next meal and they are faced with the challenge of crossing the Scorch in two weeks in order to arrive at a safe haven.

BC FIC DAVDavidson, Andrew. The gargoyle. 1st ed. New York : Doubleday, c2008.A handsome, self-centered writer and producer of pornography, burned over most of his body following an automobile crash, plans to kill himself upon his release from the hospital, but he gradually changes his mind when Marianne Engel, a beautiful sculptress of gargoyles, begins visiting him, regaling him with stories of their seven-hundred-year-old love affair.

BC FIC DAVDavis, Jill A., 1966-. Ask again later. 1st ed. New York : Ecco, c2007.After learning that her mother has cancer, New York attorney Emily Rhode decides to quit her job and move home to take care of her mom; and while doing so, becomes reacquainted with her father, who left when she was five, and gains perspective on her relationship with a man she refuses to commit to.

BC FIC DEADean, Debra, 1957-. The madonnas of Leningrad. 1st edition. New York : William Morrow, c2006.Eighty-two-year-old Marina Buriakov, preparing for her granddaughter's wedding in Seattle, finds it more and more difficult to hold onto memories in the present, retreating often to the 1940s when, living in the basement of the Hermitage Museum with other employees during the German siege of Leningrad, she created a memory room in her mind furnished with the museum's priceless masterpieces.

BC FIC DEADean, Zoey. The A-list. 1st edition. New York : Little, Brown, c2003.Seventeen-year-old blueblood Anna Percy leaves Manhattan to spend the second half of her senior year with her father in Los Angeles and quickly becomes tied up in the lives of the rich and famous at Beverly Hills High School, incurring the wrath of the "A-list" girls her first night in town for dating the boy they want.

BC FIC DEADeaver, Julie Reece. The night I disappeared. 1st Simon Pulse ed. New York : Simon Pulse, 2002.Since moving to Chicago, seventeen-year-old Jamie Tessman has been plagued by mind-slips and vivid daydreams about her best friend Webb. When her daydreams begin blocking out reality, her mother, and her new friend Morgan see that she gets help from Morgan's psychiatrist aunt.

BC FIC DEEHearn, Lian. Across the nightingale floor. 1st Riverhead trade paperback edition. New York : Riverhead Books, 2003, c2002.In ancient Japan, Takeo, a sixteen-year-old saved from a massacre by the mysterious Lord Otori, struggles to reconcile his dual nature--the one given him by the Hidden, the pacifist people among whom he was born and raised, and the one inherited from his father, a celebrated assassin.

BC FIC DESDessen, Sarah. Dreamland. New York : Speak, 2004, c2000.After her older sister runs away, sixteen-year-old Caitlin decides that she needs to make a major change in her own life and begins an abusive relationship with a boy who is mysterious, brilliant, and dangerous.

BC FIC DESDessen, Sarah. Someone like you. New York : Speak, 2004, c1998.Halley's junior year of high school includes the death of her best friend Scarlett's boyfriend, the discovery that Scarlett is pregnant, and Halley's own first serious relationship.

BC FIC DEWdeWitt, Patrick, 1975-. The Sisters brothers. Toronto : House of Anansi Press, 2011."Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. Eli and Charlie Sisters can be counted on for that. Though Eli has never shared his brother's penchant for whiskey and killing, he's never known anything else. On the road to Warm's gold-mining claim outside San Francisco -- and from the back of his long-suffering one-eyed horse -- Eli struggles to make sense of his life without abandoning the job he's sworn to do"--from www.amazon.ca.

BC FIC DIADiamant, Anita. The red tent. New York : Picador, c1997.The story of Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, is told from her point of view, beginning with the story of her mothers, Leah, Rachel, Zilpah, and Bilhah. These wives of Jacob give her the gifts that are to sustain her through a damaged youth, a calling to midwifery, and a new home in a foreign land.

BC FIC DICDick, Philip K. Do androids dream of electric sheep? 1st Ballantine Books trade paperback edition. New York : Ballantine, 1996.The inspiration for Blade Runner. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was published in 1968. Grim and foreboding, even today it is a masterpiece ahead of its time. By 2021, the World War had killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remained coveted any living creature, and for people who couldn't afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacrae: horses, birds, cats, sheep. . . They even built humans. Emigrees to Mars received androids so sophisticated it was impossible to tell them from true men or women. Fearful of the havoc these artificial humans could wreak, the government banned them from Earth. But when androids didn't want to be identified, they just blended in. Rick Deckard was an officially sanctioned bounty hunter whose job was to find rogue androids and retire them. But cornered, androids tended to fight back, with deadly results.

BC FIC DICDickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Hard times. Modern Library pbk. ed. New York : Modern Library, 2001.In a northern English town, disciplinarian Thomas Gradgrind must reexamine his utilitarian worldview when his daughter's upbringing and loveless marriage lead her to a crisis. Includes an introduction, explanatory notes, and reading group guide.

BC FIC DINDinan, Kurt. Don't get caught. Naperville, Ill. : Sourcebooks Fire, [2016].To his great surprise, uncool eleventh-grader Max Cobb is invited to join the Chaos Club, an exclusive group of students responsible for some of the biggest pranks at his high school.

BC FIC DOEDoerr, Anthony, 1973-. All the light we cannot see : a novel. 1st Scribner hardcover ed. New York : Scribner, 2014."A blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II."--Provided by publisher.

BC FIC DORDorfman, Ariel. Burning city. New York : Random House, c2003.Sixteen-year-old Heller Highland, who is living with his grandparents while his parents are away, burns rubber across Manhattan delivering bad news by bicycle, and as a summer heat wave melts the city, he is struck by first love.

BC FIC DRADraper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills). Out of my mind. 1st Atheneum Books for Young Readers pbk. ed. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2012, c2010.Considered by many to be mentally retarded, a brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy discovers a technological device that will allow her to speak for the first time.

BC FIC DUBDubus, Andre, 1959-. House of sand and fog. New York : Vintage Contemporaries, 2000.A former colonel for the Iranian Air Force believes he can create a new life for himself and his family when he buys an attractive bungalow in the California countryside, and when the cottage's former owner wants her house back, he is willing to do anything to keep it.

BC FIC EDGEdgell, Zee. Beka Lamb. Oxford ; : Heinemann, 1982.Presents a fictional account of a few months in the life of convent student Beka Lamb and her family in Belize.

BC FIC EDWEdwards, Kim, 1958-. The memory keeper's daughter. New York : Penguin, 2006, c2005.Dr. David Henry, forced to deliver his own twins during a snowstorm in 1964 with only a nurse to help him, makes a decision that has far-reaching effects on his life, and the lives of his wife and son, when his infant daughter is born with Down Syndrome, and in a vain attempt to protect his wife, he orders the nurse to take the baby to an institution.

BC FIC ELLEllis, Deborah, 1960-. No safe place. Toronto, Ont. ; : Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press, 2010.Fifteen-year-old Abdul, having lost everyone he loves, journeys from Baghdad to a migrant community in Calais where he sneaks aboard a boat bound for England, not knowing it carries a cargo of heroin, and when the vessel is involved in a skirmish and the pilot killed, it is up to Abdul and three other young stowaways to complete the journey.

BC FIC FALFallis, Terry. The best laid plans : a novel. Toronto : M&S, [2008], c2007.A burnt-out politcal aide quits ... but is forced to run a hopeless campaign on the way out. He makes a deal with engineering professor Angus McLintock to run in the election with the certainty of not winning, until a scandal blows away his opponent and Angus is elected. He decides to see what good an honest man who doesn't care about reelection can do in Parliament--from Publisher's summary.

BC FIC FARFarrant, Natasha. What we did for love : resistance, heartbreak, betrayal. Berkeley Heights, NJ : Scarlet Voyage, [2014].Arianne and Luc, childhood friends, fall in love when Luc returns to Samaroux after a five-year absence. But the cruel war closing in places them, their families, and the whole town in grave danger. When Nazis descend on Samaroux, great sacrifices are made for love.

BC FIC FINFindley, Timothy, 1930-. The wars. Toronto, ON : Penguin Books, c1986.When young Canadian Robert Ross enlists as an officer and is sent into the hell and terror of 1915 Ypres, he is unprepared for the horrors of war. But in the midst of the death and violence, his own compassion finds voice and he makes a decision that will leave its mark on him for the rest of his life. The Wars is one of the great masterpieces of Canadian literature, and since it garnered the Governor General's Award in 1977, it has established Timothy Findley as one of our most enduring literary talents.

BC FIC FISStaples, Suzanne Fisher. Shabanu : daughter of the wind. Borzoi sprinter edition. New York : Knopf, 1991, c1989.When eleven-year-old Shabanu, the daughter of a nomad in the Cholistan Desert of present-day Pakistan, is pledged in marriage to an older man whose money will bring prestige to the family, she must either accept the decision, as is the custom, or risk the consequences of defying her father's wishes.

BC FIC FITFitch, Janet, 1955-. White oleander : a novel. 1st ed. Boston : Little, Brown, c1999.Astrid, the only child of a single mother, struggles to find a place for herself in a world full of foster homes and impossible circumstances, after her mother is jailed for murder.

BC FIC FITFitzpatrick, Becca. Hush, hush. 1st Simon & Schuster BFYR pbk. ed. New York : Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2010, c2009.High school sophomore Nora has always been very cautious in her relationships, but when Patch, who has a dark side she can sense, enrolls at her school, she is mysteriously and strongly drawn to him, despite warnings from her best friend, the school counselor, and her own instincts.

BC FIC FLEFleischman, Paul. Whirligig. New York : Dell Laurel-Leaf, [1999], c1998.While traveling to each corner of the country to build a whirligig in memory of the girl whose death he causes, sixteen-year-old Brian finds forgiveness and atonement.

BC FIC FOLFoley, Jessie Ann. The carnival at Bray. 1st ed. Ashford, Conn. : Elephant Rock Books YA, [2014].When sixteen-year-old Maggie Lynch must relocate to a tiny seaside town in Ireland, she relies on care packages from her rocker uncle Kevin, but when she experiences first love and a death, Maggie heads off to explore the seedy side of Dublin, and then Rome.

BC FIC FOWFowler, Karen Joy. We are all completely beside ourselves. New York, N.Y. : A Plume Book, [2014].Coming of age in middle America, eighteen-year-old Rosemary evaluates how her entire youth was defined by the presence and forced removal of an endearing chimpanzee who was secretly regarded as a family member and who Rosemary loved as a sister.

BC FIC FRAFrank, Anne, 1929-1945. The diary of a young girl : the definitive edition. Bantam ed. New York : Bantam Books, 1997.A thirteen-year-old Dutch-Jewish girl records her impressions of the two years she and seven others spent hiding from the Nazis before they were discovered and taken to concentration camps. Includes entries previously omitted.

BC FIC FREFrey, James, 1969-. A million little pieces. 1st Anchor Books ediiton. New York : Anchor Books, 2004, c2003.Presents the author's first-hand account of his recovery from drug and alcohol addiction, beginning with his enrollment in a Minnesota rehabilitation center after a two-week blackout and ending with his rejection of all Twelve Step programs.

BC FIC FUNFunke, Cornelia Caroline. The Thief Lord. New York : Scholastic, [2003].Orphaned brothers Prosper and Bo, having run away from their cruel aunt and uncle, decide to hide out in Venice where they fall in with the Thief Lord, a thirteen-year-old boy who leads a crime ring of street children.

BC FIC GALGalloway, Steven, 1975-. Finnie Walsh. Vancouver, BC ; : Raincoast Books, c2005.Paul Woodward, the son of a mill worker, and Finnie Walsh, the mill owner's son, develop a strong friendship despite their class difference, built primarily on their love of hockey, and their devotion to each other stands even when they find themselves on opposing teams as adults.

BC FIC GEOGeorge, Alex, 1970-. Setting free the kites. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2017."From the author of the "lyrical and compelling" (USA Today) novel A Good American comes a powerful story of two friends and the unintended consequences of friendship, loss, and hope. For Robert Carter, life in his coastal Maine hometown is comfortably predictable. But in 1976, on his first day of eighth grade, he meets Nathan Tilly, who changes everything. Nathan is confident, fearless, impetuous--and fascinated by kites and flying. Robert and Nathan's budding friendship is forged in the crucible of two family tragedies, and as the boys struggle to come to terms with loss, they take summer jobs at the local rundown amusement park. It's there that Nathan's boundless capacity for optimism threatens to overwhelm them both, and where they learn some harsh truths about family, desire, and revenge. Unforgettable and heart-breaking, Setting Free the Kites is a poignant and moving exploration of the pain, joy, and glories of young friendship"--.

BC FIC GOLGoldberg, Myla. Bee season : a novel. 1st Anchor Books edition. New York : Anchor, 2001, c2000.Eliza Naumann is used to being the unremarkable member of her family, but when she wins a series of spelling bees, her once distant family begins to lavish praise on her, bringing about surprising complications.

BC FIC GOLGolden, Arthur, 1957-. Memoirs of a geisha : a novel. Vintage contemporaries ed. New York : Vintage Books, 1999, c1997.Nitta Sayuri, a young Japanese woman who was taken from her home at the age of nine and sold into slavery as a geisha, discovers a rare opportunity for freedom when the outbreak of World War II forces an end to the only life she has ever known.

BC FIC GOOGoobie, Beth, 1959-. The lottery. Victoria, BC ; : Orca Book Publishers, 2002.Fifteen-year-old Sally Hanson, chosen as the latest victim of the Shadow Council, the secret club that controls school life, finds the strength to stand up to the bullies with the help of her brother and other special friends.

BC FIC GORGordimer, Nadine. Get a life. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.Ecologist Paul Bannerman must leave his family and move into an isolated wing of his parents home after radiation treatments for his thyroid cancer renders him radioactive.

BC FIC GOWGowda, Shilpi Somaya. Secret daughter. New York : William Morrow, c2010.In a remote Indian village, Kavita's regret over giving her newborn daughter up for adoption haunts her even after the birth of a more culturally-accepted son; meanwhile, Somer, an American doctor, learns that she is unable to have children and decides to adopt the baby girl with gold-flecked eyes that she sees in a Mumbai orphanage.

BC FIC GREDawn Green. In the Swish. Markham, Ontario : Red Deer Press, 2016.Bennett Ryan is one of the region's very best basketball players. In fact, she single-handedly led her team to an undefeated State championship. But when she is forced to switch schools in her senior year, she must first fit in with her old rivals on this new team, then face her old team in the most heated playdowns of her young career.

BC FIC GREGreen, Dawn. When Kacey left. Markham, Ont. : Red Deer Press, [2015]."Kacey and Sara have been the best of friends since grade three. They did everything together. But then Kacey left and Sara had to learn to cope with her life after that moment. She knows everyone at school is staring and whispering about her behind her back. And the "Obnoxious Counselor" that her parents force her to meet with thinks writing letters to Kacey in a journal will help Sara deal with her grief. Her parents and teachers are trying to convince her that life needs to get back to normal--but how can anything ever be normal again? She and Kacey had plans--college together, vacations around the world, best friends together forever. But then Kacey chose to end her life and Sara was left to try to understand what it all meant"--Amazon.com.

BC FIC GREGreen, Dawn (Lisa Michelle Dawn). How Samantha Smart Became a Revolutionary/ Dawn Green. Markham, Ontario : Red Deer Press, c2017.In an Orwellian world eerily similar to our own where a close election divides a nation, an average girl is thrust into the social-media spotlight, labeled a terrorist, and given the title: revolutionary. From high school kid to rebel chief, Sam Smart leads the good fight against a right-wing autocratic government bent on total control in this fast-paced novel.

BC FIC GREGreen, John, 1977-. The fault in our stars. 1st edition. New York : Dutton Books, c2012.Sixteen year old Hazel, who has cancer, meets Augustus at a kids-with-cancer support group and as they fall in love they both wonder how they will be remembered.

BC FIC GREGreen, John, 1977-. Looking for Alaska. New York : Speak, 2008, c2005.Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash.

BC FIC GREGreen, John, 1977-. Paper towns. New York : Speak, 2009, c2008.One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q's neighbor and classmate, takes him on a midnight adventure and then mysteriously disappears.

BC FIC GREGreen, John, 1977-. Will Grayson, Will Grayson. 1st edition. New York : Dutton, c2010.When two teens, one gay and one straight, meet accidentally and discover that they share the same name, their lives become intertwined as one begins dating the other's best friend, who produces a play revealing his relationship with them both.

BC FIC GRIGrissom, Kathleen. The kitchen house. 1st Touchstone trade pbk. ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2010.After seven-year-old Lavinia is orphaned on the journey from Ireland to the United States, she begins work in the kitchen house of a tobacco plantation and bonds with the slaves who become her adopted family, but when Lavinia is accepted into the big house, her loyalties are challenged.

BC FIC GROGrossman, Lev. The magicians : a novel. New York : Plume, [2010], c2009.High school senior Quentin Coldwater's real world never quite measures up to Fillory, the enchanted land in his favorite fantasy novels, and even an education at the mysterious Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy leaves him without purpose, but when he discovers a way into Fillory, his life becomes a dangerous adventure.

BC FIC GRUGruen, Sara. Water for elephants : a novel. 1st ed. Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books, 2006.Ninety-year-old Jacob Jankowski finds himself haunted by memories of his past in the circus and the freaks, exotic animals, and other people he encountered as a performer.

BC FIC GUEGuevara, Ernesto, 1928-1967. The motorcycle diaries : notes on a Latin American journey. Melbourne ; : Ocean Press ;, 2003.Latin American revolutionary Che Guevara chronicles his 1952 adventure on motorbike throughout South America with friend Alberto Granado, during which he came face-to-face with the realities of poverty throughout the continent.

BC FIC GUIGuillory, Sarah. Reclaimed. 1st ed. Contoocook, NH : Spencer Hill Press, 2013.Before Jenna can leave her stifling small town and alcoholic mother, she becomes involved with twin brothers; Ian, who cannot remember anything from the past three months after an accident, and Luke, who insists he is the bad twin; and Jenna's relationship with the brothers triggers the return of Ian's memory.

BC FIC GUTGuterson, David. Snow falling on cedars. 1st Vintage contemporaries edition. New York : Vintage Books, 1995.When a newspaper journalist covers the trial of a Japanese American accused of murder, he must come to terms with his own past.

BC FIC HAWHawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864. The scarlet letter. Modern Library ed. New York : Modern Library, 2000.In seventeenth century New England, Hester Prynne is condemned by Puritan law to wear a scarlet "A" as a symbol of the sin she has committed.

BC FIC HECHegi, Ursula. Stones from the river. 1st Scribner Paperback ed. New York : Scribner Paperback Fiction, 1995, c1994.Trudi Montag a dwarf, living in a small German town, through both world wars, learns to find acceptance, because she learns that all humans are different.

BC FIC HELHelfer, Ralph. The beauty of the beasts : tales of Hollywood's wild animal stars. 1st ed. New York : Harper, 2007, c1990.Ralph Helfer describes his affectionate method of training animals and shares anecdotes about his experiences handling animals that appeared in television shows and movies.

BC FIC HEMHemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961. The sun also rises. Scribner trade pbk. edition. New York : Scribner, 2006, c1926.Focuses on a "lost generation" of Americans who fought in France during World War I and who expatriated themselves from America after the war.

BC FIC HENHeneghan, James, 1930-. Torn away. Victoria, BC ; : Orca Book, c2003.Forcibly deported to Canada because of his terrorist activities in Northern Ireland, thirteen-year-old Declan must choose between his revolutionary past and a new life with his Canadian relatives.

BC FIC HIGHighway, Tomson. Kiss of the fur queen. Toronto : Doubleday Canada, 1999, c1998.Born into a magical Cree world in snowy northern Manitoba, Champion and Ooneemeetoo Okimasis are all too soon torn from their family and thrust into the hostile world of a Catholic residential school. Their language is forbidden, their names are changed to Jeremiah and Gabriel, and both boys are abused by priests. As young men, estranged from their own people and alienated from the culture imposed upon them, the Okimasis brothers fight to survive. Wherever they go, the Fur Queen--a wily, shape-shifting trickster--watches over them with a protective eye. For Jeremiah and Gabriel are destined to be artists. Through music and dance they soar.

BC FIC HILHill, Lawrence, 1957-. The illegal : a novel. 1st ed. Toronto : HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, c2015.A literary thriller that addresses the fate of undocumented refugees who struggle to survive in nations that do not want them. Keita Ali is on the run. He is desperate to flee Zantoroland, a mountainous black island that produces the fastest marathoners in the world. Keita signs on with notorious marathon agent, Anton Hamm, who provides Keita with a chance to run the Boston marathon. But when Keita fails to place among the top finishers, rather than being sent back to his own country, he goes into hiding.

BC FIC HILLHill, Lawrence, 1957-. The book of negroes. Toronto : HarperCollins., 2007.Young Aminata Diallo is abducted from her West African home in 1745 and sold into slavery in North Carolina; but on a trip to New York City with her master, she escapes in the midst of an anti-British demonstration and helps the British transport hundreds of slaves to freedom in Nova Scotia.

BC FIC HINHinton, S. E. The outsiders. 50th anniversary ed. New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 2017.Rivalry between rich and poor gangs in 1960s Oklahoma leads to the deaths of three teenagers and intense soul-searching for one of the kids involved, a sensitive fourteen-year-old writer named Ponyboy.

BC FIC HOLHoleman, Linda, 1949-. Search of the moon king's daughter : a novel. 1st pbk. ed. Toronto : Tundra Books ;, 2003, c2002.In order to have money for the drams of opiate that take away the pain of her injured hand and of poverty, Emmaline Rote's mother sells her young son, Tommy, to a master chimney sweep. Emmaline is determined to find her brother and to save him from the short life of a chimney sweep.

BC FIC HORHorowitz, Anthony, 1955-. Stormbreaker : an Alex Rider adventure. New York : Speak, 2004, c2000.After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency, MI6.

BC FIC HOSHosseini, Khaled. And the mountains echoed. Toronto : Viking/Penguin Canada, c2013.A multigenerational-family story of how we take care of one another, and how the choices we make resonate through generations.

BC FIC HOSHosseini, Khaled. The kite runner. Toronto : Anchor Canada, 2004, c2003.An epic tale of fathers and sons, of friendship and betrayal, that takes us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the atrocities of the present. The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father's servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in the process of being destroyed. It is about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and the possibility of redemption, and it is also about the power of fathers over sons-their love, their sacrifices, their lies.

BC FIC HOWHoward, Ravi. Like trees, walking. 1st ed. New York : Amistad, c2007.Paul and Roy Deacon, the teenage sons of the owners of Deacon Memorial Funeral Home in Mobile, Alabama, are accustomed to death and its attending rituals, but none of their experiences have prepared them to deal with the murder of their friend Michael Donald, found hanging from a tree--an obvious victim of lynching in 1981.

BC FIC IRVIrving, John, 1942-. A widow for one year : a novel. 1st Canadian ed. Toronto : Alfred A. Knopf Canada, c1998.Tells the story of Ruth Cole, looking in on three stages of her life, the first in the summer of 1958 when she is four and her parents are estranged; next in the fall of 1990 when Ruth, unmarried, has a thriving literary career but no personal success; and finally in the autumn of 1995 when she falls in love for the first time.

BC FIC ISHIshiguro, Kazuo, 1954-. Never let me go. Vintage Canada movie tie-in ed., 2010. Toronto : Vintage Canada :, 2010, c2005.Thirty-one-year-old Kathy, along with old friends from Hailsham, a private school in England, are forced to face the truth about their childhood when they all come together again.

BC FIC ISHIshiguro, Kazuo, 1954-. Never let me go. 1st American ed. Toronto : Vintage Canada :, 2006.Thirty-one-year-old Kathy, along with old friends from Hailsham, a private school in England, are forced to face the truth about their childhood when they all come together again.

BC FIC JAFJaffe, Michele. Minders. New York, N.Y. : Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, [2014].Sadie, a wealthy, success-oriented sixteen-year-old joins the prestigious Mind Corps Fellowship program as an observer in the head of Ford, a troubled, possibly murderous boy, with whom Sadie falls in love.

BC FIC JAMJames, P. D. A certain justice. 1st American trade ed. New York : Knopf, 1997.Commander Adam Dalgliesh is drawn into the strange closed world of the London legal community when he is called to investigate the murder of criminal lawyer Venetia Aldridge who was found stabbed to death at her desk shortly after successfully defending Garry Ashe on charges of having killed his aunt.

BC FIC JOHJohnston, Wayne. The navigator of New York. Toronto : Vintage Canada, 2003, c2002.An orphan receives a letter that sends him from St. John's to New York where he joins up with Dr. Cook, rival to the man his father was with at his death, and falls in love with a woman who has an astonishing connection to his mother.

BC FIC JONJones, Edward P. The Known World. 1st Amistad pbk. ed. New York : Amistad, 2004, c2003.Henry Townsend, a African farmer and former slave, is befriended by the most powerful man in antebellum Virginia's Manchester County and becomes proprietor of his own plantation, as well as of his own slaves.

BC FIC JONJones, Kari (Kari Lynne), 1966-. At the edge of the world. [Victoria, B.C.] : Orca Book Publishers, 2016.Maddie and Ivan have been friends forever. They go to school together, surf, party, and hang out all the time. Ivan eats at Maddie's house almost every day. But all is not well in Ivan's world, and as control of his life slips farther away from him, Maddie agonises over her role in his life. Ivan fears the fallout if the people in his community discover what he's been hiding, but Maddie thinks telling his secret will help him. As Maddie struggles to figure out her own post-high-school path, she worries about how to deal with the things she knows about Ivan's life. Is she a keeper of his secrets? Should she help him hide what's going on in his family? Or should she tell someone and get help? What does betrayal look like when your best friend is in trouble?.

BC FIC JONJones, Lloyd, 1955-. Mister Pip. Dial Press Trade Paperback ed. New York : Dial Press Trade Paperback, 2008.During wartime only one white man remains on the island. Mr. Watts cleans up the old school house and begins to read to the children each day from Dickens' "Great Expectations." Adult villagers follow their children and end up sharing their own tales.

BC FIC JUBJuby, Susan, 1969-. Home to Woefield : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Harper, c2011.Prudence Burns has designs for the thirty-acre farm she inherits and leaves her New York life to come and care for the dilapidated buildings and her one, half-sheared sheep, but the threat of bank foreclosure could ruin all of her plans and Prudence finds help in her banjo-playing foreman, Earl, her recluse neighbor, Seth, and eleven-year-old Sara Spratt, who is looking for a home for her prize-winning chickens.

BC FIC KHOKhoury, Raymond. The last Templar. New York : Signet, 2006, c2005.Archaeologist Tess Chaykin and FBI agent Sean Reilly investigate the theft, by four horsemen dressed as Knights Templar, of a coding device that could reveal the order's secrets about early Christian history.

BC FIC KHOKhoury, Raymond. The last Templar. New York : Dutton, [2006], c2005.Archaeologist Tess Chaykin and FBI agent Sean Reilly investigate the theft, by four horsemen dressed as Knights Templar, of a coding device that could reveal the order's secrets about early Christian history.

BC FIC KIDKidd, Sue Monk. The mermaid chair. New York : Penguin books, 2006, c2005.Forty-two-year-old Jessie is summoned home to Egret Island off the coast of South Carolina after her obsessively devout mother inexplicably cuts off her own finger, and finds herself oddly exhilarated to be free of her husband, and wildly attracted to Brother Thomas, a monk who has yet to take his final vows.

BC FIC KINKing, Thomas, 1943-. Green grass, running water. Bantam trade pbk. ed. New York : Bantam Books, 1994, c1993.A magical realism novel by Cherokee author Thomas King in which four Indian elders and the trickster Coyote change the lives of several individuals who come to the Blackfoot reservation for the Sun Dance.

BC FIC KINKing, Thomas, 1943-. The truth about stories : a native narrative. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2005, c2003.The author presents a collection of stories and events from his own life as a Native American, and examines the Native American's strong ties to storytelling.

BC FIC KINKingsolver, Barbara. Animal dreams : a novel. 1st HarperPerennial ed. New York : HarperPerennial, 1991.Codi returns to her hometown to confront her past and face her ailing father. What she finds is a town threatened by an environmental catastrophe and a man who could change her life.

BC FIC KINKingsolver, Barbara. The bean trees : a novel. New York : HarperTorch, [2001], c1988.Taylor, a poor Kentuckian, makes her way west with an abandoned baby girl and stops in Tucson. There she finds friends and discovers resources in apparently empty places.

BC FIC KINKingsolver, Barbara. Pigs in heaven : a novel. New York : HarperTorch, [2001], c1993.Six-year-old Turtle Green witnesses a freak accident drawing her and her mother into a conflict of historic proportions.

BC FIC KINKingsolver, Barbara. The poisonwood Bible : a novel. 1st HarperPerennial edition. New York : HarperPerennial, 1999, c1998.The drama of a U.S. missionary family in Africa during a war of decolonization. At its center is Nathan Price, a self-righteous Baptist minister who establishes a mission in a village in 1959 Belgian Congo. The resulting clash of cultures is seen through the eyes of his wife and his four daughters. By the author of Pigs in Heaven.

BC FIC KINKinsella, Sophie. Finding Audrey : a novel. Toronto, Ont. : Doubleday Canada, c2015."An anxiety disorder disrupts fourteen-year-old Audrey's daily life. She has been making slow but steady progress with Dr. Sarah, but when Audrey meets Linus, her brother's gaming teammate, she is energized. She connects with him. Audrey can talk through her fears with Linus in a way she's never been able to do with anyone before. As their friendship deepens and her recovery gains momentum, a sweet romantic connection develops, one that helps not just Audrey but also her entire family."--From publisher.

BC FIC KONKonigsburg, E. L. Silent to the bone. 1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed. New York : Aladdin Paperbacks, 2002, c2000.When he is wrongly accused of gravely injuring his baby half-sister, thirteen-year-old Branwell loses his power of speech and only his friend Connor is able to reach him and uncover the truth about what really happened.

BC FIC KORKorman, Gordon. Son of the mob. 1st edition. New York : Hyperion, c2002.Seventeen-year-old Vince's life is constantly complicated by the fact that he is the son of a powerful Mafia boss, a relationship that threatens to destroy his romance with the daughter of an FBI agent.

BC FIC KROKropp, Paul. Moonkid and Prometheus. Buffalo, N.Y. : Stoddart Kids, 1998.Ian, a teenager who prides himself on being a misfit, meets a friend for a lifetime when he agrees to tutor a young student and is united with Prometheus, a hulking, tough-looking boy with a heart of gold.

BC FIC LAILaird, Elizabeth. The garbage king. 1st ed. for the United States, its dependencies, and the Philippines. Hauppauge, N.Y. : Barron's, 2003.Set in Addis Ababa, the capital city of Ethiopia, the Garbage King is the story of Dani and Mamo two boys leading unbelievably different lives. Dani's home is a grand house full of servants Mamo has no home at all. But now they are both on the run. One flees a tyrannical father, the other escapes slavery. Brought together by fate they slowly become friends, trusting each other with their lives. Living with a street gang they have nothing and share everything, learning what they need to survive.

BC FIC LAILaird, Elizabeth. Kiss the dust. London : Macmillan Children's, 2007.Her father's involvement with the Kurdish resistance movement in Iraq forces thirteen-year-old Tara to flee with her family over the border into Iran, where they face an unknown future.

BC FIC LAMLam, Vincent. Bloodletting & miraculous cures : stories. Toronto, ON : Doubleday Canada, 2006.How to get into medical school, part I -- Take all of Murphy -- How to get into medical school, part II -- Code clock -- A long migration -- Winston -- Eli -- Afterwards -- An insistent tide -- Night flight -- Contact tracing -- Before light. A collection of short stories the weaves together the relationships that develop among a group of young doctors as they move from the challenges of medical school to the world of emergency rooms, evacuation missions, and viruses.

BC FIC LANLangston, Elizabeth. Whisper Falls. 1st ed. Contoocook, NH : Spencer Hill Press, 2013.A teen boy in modern-day North Carolina, and an indentured servant girl from 1796 in the same area, meet through a waterfall that allows them to talk, and then travel across the centuries.

BC FIC LAWLaurence, Margaret. A bird in the house. Toronto, Ontario : McClelland and Stewart, 1989.She was born in the small Manitoba town of Manawaka--a world of proud personal struggles, bitter family conflicts, and unyielding prairie traditions. It was here, in the lean years of the Depression, that she came into her own.Canadiana.

BC FIC LAWLawrence, Iain, 1955-. The buccaneers. New York : Dell Yearling, [2003], c2001.In the eighteenth century sixteen-year-old John Spencer sails from England in his schooner, the Dragon, to the Caribbean, where he and the crew encounter pirates, fierce storms, fever, and a strange man who some fear may be cursed.

BC FIC LAWLawrence, Iain, 1955-. Ghost boy. New York : Dell Laurel-Leaf, [2002], c2000.Unhappy in a home seemingly devoid of love, a fourteen-year-old albino boy who thinks of himself as Harold the Ghost runs away to join the circus, where he works with the elephants and searches for a sense of who he is. Includes reading group discussion guide.

BC FIC LAWLawrence, Iain, 1955-. The lightkeeper's daughter. New York : Delacorte Press, [2004], c2002.When, after a four-year absence, seventeen-year-old Squid returns to her childhood home on a remote lighthouse island off British Columbia with her young daughter in tow, she and her parents try to come to terms with each other and the painful events of the past, especially the death of her older brother.

BC FIC LAWLawrence, Iain, 1955-. The smugglers. New York : Dell, [2000], c1999.In eighteenth-century England, after his father buys a schooner called the Dragon, sixteen-year-old John sets out to sail it from Kent to London and becomes involved in a dangerous smuggling scheme.

BC FIC LAWLawrence, Iain, 1955-. The wreckers. New York : Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers, [1999], c1998.Shipwrecked after a vicious storm, fourteen-year-old John Spencer attempts to save his father and himself while also dealing with an evil secret about the Cornish coastal town where they are stranded.

BC FIC LAWLawson, Mary, 1946-. Crow Lake. 1st edition. Toronto : Random House of Canada Ltd., c2002.In the rural farm country of northern Ontario, the lives of two families--the farming Pye family, and zoologist Kate Morrison and her three brothers--are brought together and torn apart by misunderstanding, resentment, family love, and tragedy.

BC FIC LAWLawson, Mary, 1946-. The other side of the bridge. New York : Dial Press, 2006.Two brothers, Arthur and Jake Dunn, compete for the attention of Laura, a beautiful young woman who comes to live in the community during the pre-war years of the 1930s.

BC FIC LAWLawson, Mary, 1946-. The other side of the bridge. Dial Press trade pbk. ed. New York : Dial Press Trade Pbks., 2007, c2006.The troubled relationship between two brothers--Arthur Dunn, the dutiful eldest son, and the mercurial, dangerous Jake--escalates when they are both drawn to a beautiful young woman.

BC FIC LEELee, Carol. To die for : the true story of a broken childhood. London : Century, 2004.

BC FIC LETLetts, Billie. Where the heart is : a novel. New York : Warner Books, 2000, c1995.Novalee Nation, seventeen, pregnant, and living in a Wal-Mart store discovers friendship, encouragement, direction and love with a group of caring people in Sequoyah, Oklahoma.

BC FIC LEVLevithan, David. Every day. 1st edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2012.Every morning A wakes in a different person's body, in a different person's life, learning over the years to never get too attached, until he wakes up in the body of Justin and falls in love with Justin's girlfriend, Rhiannon.

BC FIC LEVLevy, Andrea, 1956-. Small island. London : Review, 2004.

BC FIC LITLittman, Sarah. Backlash. New York, NY : Scholastic Inc., [2016].When Christian, a boy she knows only through Facebook, posts a lot of nasty comments on her page, fifteen-year-old Lara tries to kill herself--but that is only the beginning of the backlash for her sister, Sydney; her former friend Bree; and her classmates.

BC FIC LOCLockhart, E. We were liars. 1st edition. New York : Delacorte Press, [2013].Spending the summers on her family's private island off the coast of Massachusetts with her cousins and a special boy named Gat, teenaged Cadence struggles to remember what happened during her fifteenth summer.

BC FIC MACMacDonald, Ann-Marie, 1958-. The way the crow flies : a novel. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c2003.Jack McCarthy, an officer in the Royal Canadian Air Force, and his young daughter Madeleine become caught in separate moral dilemmas when Jack is assigned to watch over a defector from Soviet Russia who has come to work on the U.S. space program, and who Jack soon realizes is a former Nazi, while Madeleine, one of a group of girls being molested by their teacher, keeps her secrets when a classmate is raped and murdered.

BC FIC MACMacLeod, Alistair. No great mischief. 1st Vintage International ed. New York : Vintage, 2001, c1999.Alexander MacDonald, one of the MacDonald clan that has lived in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia since 1779 when Calum MacDonald, his wife, twelve children, and dog landed in Canada, remains dedicated to the memory of Scotland and his grandmother's admonition to "always look after your blood.".

BC FIC MARMarchetta, Melina, 1965-. Saving Francesca. 1st American ed. New York : Knopf :, [2004], c2003.Sixteen-year-old Francesca could use her outspoken mother's help with the problems of being one of a handful of girls at a parochial school that has just turned co-ed, but her mother has suddenly become severely depressed.

BC FIC MARMartel, Yann. Life of Pi. Toronto, Ontario : Vintage, 2002 c2001.Pi Patel, sixteen-year-old son of a zookeeper in Pondicherry, India, sets off with his family to Canada, but his life takes a dramatic turn when their ship sinks in the Pacific leaving him adrift on a raft with a Bengal tiger for company.

BC FIC MARMartel, Yann. Life of Pi : a novel. lst U.S. ed. New York : Harcourt, c2001.Pi Patel, having spent an idyllic childhood in Pondicherry, India, as the son of a zookeeper, sets off with his family at the age of sixteen to start anew in Canada, but his life takes a marvelous turn when their ship sinks in the Pacific, leaving him adrift on a raft with a 450-pound Bengal tiger for company.

BC FIC MATMatson, Morgan. Since you've been gone. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2014.Quiet Emily's sociable and daring best friend, Sloane, has disappeared leaving nothing but a random list of bizarre tasks for her to complete, but with unexpected help from popular classmate Frank Porter, Emily gives them a try.

BC FIC MAYMayes, Frances. Under the Tuscan sun : at home in Italy. 1st Broadway Books trade pbk. ed. New York : Broadway Books, 1997.A chronicle of the author's first four years in Italy, describing her purchase and restoration of an abandoned villa in the Tuscan countryside, her transformation of the overgrown gardens, and her discovery of the many links between the food and culture of the region.

BC FIC MCBMcBay, Bruce. Waiting for Sarah. Victoria, BC ; : Orca Book Publishers, 2003.After teenager Mike Scott loses his family and his legs in a car accident, he withdraws until he meets the mysterious Sarah, a girl who is not what she seems.

BC FIC MCCMcCall Smith, Alexander, 1948-. Morality for beautiful girls. 1st Anchor Books ed. New York : Anchor Books, 2002, c2001.Private investigator Precious Ramotswe attempts to find out who poisoned the brother of an important government official in Botswana, while probing the moral integrity of a group of beauty contestants, and worrying about money and her fiance's health.

BC FIC MCCMcCall Smith, Alexander, 1948-. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. 1st Anchor Books mass market ed. New York : Anchor Books, 2005, c1998.The cunning and engaging Precious Ramotswe sets up shop in a small storefront in Gaborone, hoping to become a private detective, and she soon has more business than she expected, including a disturbing case involving a missing child.

BC FIC MCCMcCann, Colum, 1965-. Let the great world spin : a novel. Toronto : Harper Collins Pub., 2010, c2009.In 1974 Manhattan, a radical young Irish monk struggles with personal demons while making his home among Bronx prostitutes, a group of mothers shares grief over their lost Vietnam soldier sons, and a young grandmother attempts to prove her worth.

BC FIC MCCMcClintock, Norah. Dooley takes the fall. Calgary, Alberta : Red Deer Press, c2008.As a troubled teen struggles to free himself from his past and the implications of the present conspiracies that surround him, Dooley tries to prove his innocence in a suicide that looks like murder.

BC FIC MCCMcCourt, Frank. Angela's ashes : a memoir. 2nd Touchstone ed. New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 1999, c1996.The author chronicles his impoverished childhood in Limerick, Ireland, in the 1930s and 1940s, describing his father's alcoholism and talent for storytelling; the challenges and tragedies his mother faced, including the loss of three children; and his early experiences in the Catholic church, and balances painful memories with humor.

BC FIC MCCMcCourt, Frank. Angela's ashes : a memoir. 1st Touchstone edition. New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 1999, c1996.The author chronicles his impoverished childhood in Limerick, Ireland, in the 1930s and 1940s, describing his father's alcoholism and talent for storytelling; the challenges and tragedies his mother faced, including the loss of three children; and his early experiences in the Catholic church, and balances painful memories with humor.

BC FIC MCCMcCullers, Carson, 1917-1967. The heart is a lonely hunter. 1st Mariner Books edition. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2000, c1940.A deaf mute who has lost his only friend to a hospital for the insane becomes the recipient of the confidences of several other town residents.

BC FIC MCNMcNeal, Laura. Zipped. 1st Knopf trade paperback edition. New York : Knopf :, 2004, c2003.At the end of their sophomore year in high school, the lives of four teenagers are woven together as they start a tough new job, face family problems, deal with changing friendships, and find love.

BC FIC MEYMeyer, Carolyn, 1935-. Beware, Princess Elizabeth. 1st Gulliver Books pbk. ed. San Diego : Harcourt, 2002, c2001.After the death of her father, King Henry VIII, in 1547, thirteen-year-old Elizabeth must endure the political intrigues and dangers of the reigns of her half-brother Edward and her half-sister Mary before finally becoming Queen of England eleven years later.

BC FIC MEYMeyer, Carolyn, 1935-. Mary, Bloody Mary. 1st Gulliver Books pbk. ed. San Diego : Harcourt, 2001, c1999.Mary Tudor, who would reign briefly as Queen of England during the mid-sixteenth century, tells the story of her troubled childhood as daughter of King Henry VIII.

BC FIC MIKMikaelsen, Ben, 1952-. Touching Spirit Bear. 1st rack edition. New York : HarperTrophy, 2005, c2001.Fifteen-year-old Cole, trying to avoid prison, agrees to participate in a sentencing alternative based on the Native American Circle Justice, and is sent to a remote Alaskan Island where an encounter with a huge Spirit Bear changes his life.

BC FIC MILMiller, Lauren (Lauren McBrayer), 1980-. Free to fall. 1st ed. New York, NY : HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2014]."In a near-future world where everyone is controlled by their smartphones, sixteen-year-old Rory Vaughn suddenly begins listening to the voice within--which kids are taught to ignore--and discovers a terrible plot at the heart of the corporation that makes the devices"--Provided by publisher.

BC FIC MORMorgenstern, Erin. The night circus : a novel. Toronto : Anchor, c2011.A circus known as Le Cirque des Rêves features two illusionists, Celia and Marco, who are unknowingly competing in a game to which they have been irrevocably bound by their mercurial masters, and as the two fall deeply and passionately in love with each other, their masters intervene with dangerous consequences.

BC FIC MORMorris, Mary McGarry. Songs in ordinary time. New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Viking, c1995.Tells the story of Marie Fermoyle, a lonely divorcee, who in the summer of 1960 falls prey to a dangerous con man while struggling to keep her family together against a variety of obstacles.

BC FIC MUCMuchamore, Robert. The recruit. London, England : Hodder Children's Books, 2004.A terrorist doesn't let strangers into her flat because they might be undercover police or intelligence agents, but her children bring their mates home and they run all over the place. The terrorist doesn't know that one of these kids has bugged every room in her house, made copies of all her computer files and stolen her address book. The kid works for CHERUB.

BC FIC NESNess, Patrick, 1971-. The knife of never letting go. 1st U.S. edition. Cambridge, MA : Candlewick Press, 2008.Todd, one month away from an important birthday, learns all the tough lessons of adulthood when he is forced to flee after discovering a secret near the town where he lives.

BC FIC NESNess, Patrick, 1971-. More than this. 1st U.S. pbk. ed. Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2014.A boy named Seth drowns, but then wakes up alone in his hometown, and doesn't know if he is alive or dead.

BC FIC NESNess, Patrick, 1971-. The rest of us just live here. 1st U.S. ed., 2015. New York, NY : HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2015."What if you aren't the Chosen One? The one who's supposed to fight the zombies, or the soul-eating ghosts, or whatever the heck this new thing is, with the blue lights and the death? What if you're like Mikey? Who just wants to graduate and go to prom and maybe finally work up the courage to ask Henna out before someone goes and blows up the high school. Again. Because sometimes there are problems bigger than this week's end of the world, and sometimes you just have to find the extraordinary in your ordinary life. Even if your best friend is worshipped by mountain lions."--Publisher.

BC FIC NGCNg, Celeste. Little fires everywhere. New York : Penguin Press, 2017."In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned--from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules. Enter Mia Warren--an enigmatic artist and single mother--who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenaged daughter Pearl, and rents a house from the Richardsons. Soon Mia and Pearl become more than tenants: all four Richardson children are drawn to the mother-daughter pair. But Mia carries with her a mysterious past and a disregard for the status quo that threatens to upend this carefully ordered community. When old family friends of the Richardsons attempt to adopt a Chinese-American baby, a custody battle erupts that dramatically divides the town--and puts Mia and Elena on opposing sides. Suspicious of Mia and her motives, Elena is determined to uncover the secrets in Mia's past. But her obsession will come at unexpected and devastating costs"--Jacket flap.

BC FIC NIENielsen-Fernlund, Susin, 1964-. The reluctant journal of Henry K. Larsen. Toronto : Tundra Books ;, c2012.Thirteen-year-old Henry's life is turned upside down when his older brother Jesse picks up their father's hunting rifle and leaves home, leaving him and his family to move to a new city, where he keeps a journal to confide in.

BC FIC NIFNiffenegger, Audrey. The time traveler's wife : a novel. San Francisco, CA : MacAdam/Cage, c2003.Clare and Henry, deeply in love, try desperately to maintain normal lives even though he has been diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder, a condition in which his genetic clock periodically resets, pulling him through time to the past or future.

BC FIC NORNorthup, Solomon, b. 1808. Twelve years a slave. New York : Penguin Books, 2012.Solomon Northup tells about being kidnapped and sold into slavery in the South after having been a free citizen in New York during the mid-1800s.

BC FIC O'BO'Brien, Robert C. Z for Zachariah. [1st ed.]. New York : Atheneum, 1974.Seemingly the only person left alive after the holocaust of a war, a young girl is relieved to see a man arrive into her valley until she realizes that he is a tyrant and she must somehow escape.

BC FIC ONDOndaatje, Michael, 1943 -. The English patient. Toronto, Onatrio : Vintage Books Canada, 1996.At the end of World War II, a mysterious, horribly burned man who claims not to remember his name, known only as the "English patient," lies near death in an Italian villa. He is cared for by a quietly desperate young nurse, Hana, herself a victim of the war. With her at the villa are Kip, a young Sikh bomb-disposal expert, and a shadowy thief with bandaged hands named Caravaggio. The key to the burned man's past may lie in his commonplace book, a volume of Herodotus, and its intimations of the sacred whirlwind of a great, mysterious, passionate, and tragically doomed love, which trapped two unsuspecting people, forever.

BC FIC OZEOzeki, Ruth L. A tale for the time being. New York : Viking, 2013.When Ruth finds a piece of debris washed up on a beach on a remote island in the Pacific Northwest she discovers the diary of sixteen-year-old Nao, living in Tokyo, who decides that death is the only escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying, but before she ends it all, Nao first plans to document the life of her great grandmother, a Buddhist nun who's lived more than a century.

BC FIC PARPark, Linda Sue. When my name was Keoko. New York : Yearling, [2004], c2002.With national pride and occasional fear, a brother and sister face the increasingly oppressive occupation of Korea by Japan during World War II, which threatens to suppress Korean culture entirely.

BC FIC PARParker, Daniel, 1970-. Watching Alice: Break the surface. New York : Razorbill, c2004.High school senior Tom Sinclair's journal chronicles events leading up to the disappearance of Alice, the only person he has confided in after moving from Vermont to Manhattan in an attempt to run away from his past.

BC FIC PATPatchett, Ann. Bel canto : a novel. 1st Harper Perennial ed. New York : Harper Perennial, 2005, c2001.A group of international guests, taken hostage by terrorists while attending a birthday party at the home of the vice president of a small South American country, form bonds with their captors and enter into an almost idyllic lifestyle, united by the music of Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano.

BC FIC PATPaton, Alan. Cry, the beloved country. 1st Scribner Paperback Fiction ed. New York : Scribner Paperback Fiction, 1995.Accused of murdering a white man, a young black South African turns to his minister father and a white attorney for help, but the racial problems of the country prevent justice from being served.

BC FIC PAUPaulsen, Gary. The Transall saga. New York, N.Y. : Bantam Doubleday Books for Young Readers, c1998.While backpacking in the desert, thirteen-year-old Mark falls into a tube of blue light and is transported into a more primitive world, where he must use his knowledge and skills to survive.

BC FIC PEAPearson, Mary (Mary E.). The adoration of Jenna Fox. 1st Square Fish edition. New York : Square Fish, 2009, c2008.Seventeen-year-old Jenna Angeline Fox wakes from a long coma with no memory of who she is, and is sent home with her mother and inexplicably hostile grandmother where hours of video recordings of her childhood help spark her memories and send her on a horrifying quest to learn what really happened to her.

BC FIC PICPicoult, Jodi, 1966-. My sister's keeper : a novel. New York : Atria Books, c2004.Thirteen-year-old Anna, conceived specifically to provide blood and bone marrow for her sister Kate who was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia at the age of two, decides to sue her parents for control of her body when her mother wants her to donate a kidney to Kate.

BC FIC PICPicoult, Jodi, 1966-. My sister's keeper : a novel. 1st Washington Square Press trade paperback edition. New York : Washington Square Press, 2005.Thirteen-year-old Anna, conceived specifically to provide blood and bone marrow for her sister Kate who was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia at the age of two, decides to sue her parents for control of her body when her mother wants her to donate a kidney to Kate.

BC FIC PLUPlum, Amy. After the end. 1st ed. New York, NY : HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2014].Seventeen-year-old Juneau is living in the Alaskan wilderness with other members of her clan, survivors of a world ravaged by World War III, but when she returns from a hunting trip one day to find her entire clan missing she soon learns the truth that the rest of the world was never destroyed and she must navigate her way through the modern world to discover what happened to her family and friends.

BC FIC PLUPlum-Ucci, Carol, 1957-. The body of Christopher Creed. 1st Volo ed. New York : Volo/Hyperion, 2001, c2000.Torey Adams, a high school junior with a seemingly perfect life, struggles with doubts and questions surrounding the mysterious disappearance of the class outcast.

BC FIC PLUPlum-Ucci, Carol, 1957-. What happened to Lani Garver. 1st Harcourt paperback edition. Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, 2004, c2002.Sixteen-year-old Claire is unable to face her fears about a recurrence of her leukemia, her eating disorder, her need to fit in with the popular crowd on Hackett Island, and her mother's alcoholism until the enigmatic Lani Garver helps her get control of her life at the risk of his own.

BC FIC PROProse, Francine, 1947-. After. 1st ed. New York : Joanna Cotler Books, c2003.In the aftermath of a nearby school shooting, a grief and crisis counselor takes over Central High School and enacts increasingly harsh measures to control students, while those who do not comply disappear.

BC FIC PROProulx, Annie. The Shipping News. 1st Touchstone ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, 1994, c1993.Quoyle and his two emotionally disturbed daughters return to the family ancestral home in Newfoundland to start new lives.

BC FIC PULPullman, Philip, 1946-. The golden compass. New York : Yearling, [2001], c1995.Eleven-year-old Lyra Belacqua journeys from her home at Oxford University to the frozen North on a quest to save kidnapped children from the evil Gobblers; and then rescue her father from the Panserbjorne, a race of mercenary polar bears who have taken him captive.

BC FIC QUIQuinn, Daniel. After Dachau. Hanover : Zoland Books, 2001.

BC FIC QUIQuinn, Daniel. Ishmael. Bantam trade pbk. ed. New York : Bantam/Turner Book, 1995.Records the philosophical conversations that take place between a man and a gorilla named Ishmael after the man answers an advertisement for a pupil with a desire to save the world.

BC FIC RANRand, Ayn. Anthem. Centennial ed. New York : Dutton, 2005, c1995.Set in a future world, one man defies the ideals of collectivism, makes his own decisions and personal choices, seeks knowledge, and ultimately becomes a target for death.

BC FIC REEReeve, Philip. Railhead. North Mankato, Minn. : Switch Press, a Capstone imprint, 2016.In a world of drones and androids, Zen Starling is a human thief, but mostly he just likes to ride the Interstellar Express, the sentient trains that travel through the K gates from planet to planet, something only the Guardians understand. But now the mysterious Raven wants him to steal the Pyxis, an object that could either open up a new gate, challenging the Guardians, or put the entire gate system, and the universe itself, in danger.

BC FIC ROBRobinson, Eden. Monkey beach. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c2000.Lisa, a young Haisla girl who lives on a reservation in the Pacific Northwest and feels surrounded by supernatural forces, searches for her drowned brother in the Douglas Channel.

BC FIC ROWRowell, Rainbow. Eleanor & Park. 1st edition. New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2013."Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits--smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try"--Provided by publisher.

BC FIC ROWRowell, Rainbow. Fangirl. 1st edition. New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2013.Feeling cast off when her twin sister outgrows their shared love for a favorite fictional character, Cath, a dedicated fan-fiction writer, struggles to survive on her own in her first year of college while avoiding a surly roommate, bonding with a handsome classmate who only wants to talk about words, and worrying about her fragile father.

BC FIC ROYRoy, Gabrielle, 1909-. Where nests the water hen. New Canadian library ed. Toronto, Ont. : M & S, 1989.Presents a short novel that describes the spirit and surroundings of the pioneers of Northern Manitoba and how they survive the wilderness.

BC FIC SACSachar, Louis, 1954-. The cardturner. New York : Delacorte Press, 2010.When his wealthy uncle, a champion bridge player who has lost his vision, asks seventeen-year-old Alton to be a cardturner for him, Alton has no idea how much he will ultimately learn from his eccentric relative. Includes appendix by Syd Fox with information about bridge.

BC FIC SACSachar, Louis, 1954-. Holes. New York : Dell Laurel-Leaf, c1998.As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.

BC FIC SAESáenz, Benjamin Alire. Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe. 1st Simon & Schuster BFYR pbk. ed. New York : Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2014.Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents, and his family that he has never asked before.

BC FIC SCAScarrow, Kristine. Throwaway girl. Toronto : Dundurn, [2014]."Andy Burton knows a thing or two about survival. Since she was removed from her mother's home and placed in foster care when she was nine, she's had to deal with abuse, hunger, and homelessness. But now that she's eighteen, she's about to leave Haywood House, the group home for girls where she's lived for the past four years, and the closest thing to a real home she's ever known"--Publishers website.

BC FIC SCHSchrefer, Eliot, 1978-. Threatened. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic Press, 2014.Luc is an orphan, living in debt slavery in Gabon, until he meets a Professor who claims to be studying chimpanzees, and they head off into the jungle--but when the Professor disappears, Luc has to fend for himself and join forces with the chimps to save their forest.

BC FIC SCHSchwarz, Christina. Drowning Ruth. 1st Ballantine Books ed. New York : Ballantine Books, 2001, c2000.Unable to deal with her problems, Amanda Starkey flees to her sister's farm, but when her sister drowns in a mysterious accident, Amanda is forced to take charge of her young niece, and she soon realizes that she has not left her problems behind, she has merely brought them with her.

BC FIC SEBSebold, Alice. The almost moon : a novel. 1st edition. New York : Little, Brown, 2007.Fifty-year-old artist's model Helen Knightly, worn down by years of dealing with her depressed and needy mother, gives in to the temptation to smother the now old and senile Clair and spends the next twenty-four hours feeling both liberated by what she has done, and tormented by her memories of the past and expectations for the future.

BC FIC SEBSebold, Alice. The Lovely Bones : a novel. 1st Back Bay trade pbk. ed. New York : Little, Brown and Co, 2002.Fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon, the victim of a sexual assault and murder, looks on from the afterlife as her family deals with their grief, and waits for her killer to be brought to some type of justice.

BC FIC SEMSemple, Maria. Where'd you go, Bernadette : a novel. 1st Back Bay paperback edition. New York : Back Bay Books, Little, Brown and Co., 2013.When Bee aces her report card she claims her reward, which is a trip to Antarctica, but her mother, Bernadette, disappears due to her intensifying allergy to Seattle and people in general, which has made her so agoraphobic that a virtual assistant in India now runs her most basic errands and Bee uses emails, invoices, school memos, private correspondence, and other evidence to try and understand why her mother has left.

BC FIC SEPSepetys, Ruta. Between shades of gray. New York : Speak, 2012, c2011.In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil. Based on the author's family, includes a historical note.

BC FIC SHEAlexie, Sherman, 1966-. The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2007.Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Native American is the school mascot.

BC FIC SHEShecter, Vicky. Cleopatra's moon. 1st ed. New York : Arthur A. Levine Books, 2011.Selene, having grown up in a palace with her parents, Cleopatra and Mark Antony, is forced by war to build a new life in the household of Roman emperor Octavianus, where she finds herself torn between two young men and two possible destinies.

BC FIC SHIShields, Carol. The stone diaries. 1st American edition. New York : Viking, 1994.This fictionalized autobiography of Daisy Goodwill Flett, captured in Daisy's vivacious yet reflective voice, has been winning over readers since its publication in 1995, when it won the Pulitzer Prize. After a youth marked by sudden death and loss, Daisy escapes into conventionality as a middle-class wife and mother. Years later she becomes a successful garden columnist and experiences the kind of awakening that thousands of her contemporaries in mid-century yearned for but missed in alcoholism, marital infidelity and bridge clubs. The events of Daisy's life, however, are less compelling than her rich, vividly described inner life--from her memories of her adoptive mother to her awareness of impending death. Shields' sensuous prose and her deft characterizations make this, her sixth novel, her most successful yet.

BC FIC SHRShreve, Anita. Light on snow : a novel. 1st Back Bay trade pbk. ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2005, c2004.Twelve-year-old Nicky Dillon, still dealing with the loss of her mother and baby sister two years earlier, and her grieving father's sudden decision to move to an isolated New England farmhouse, takes further steps into the adult world when she and her dad find an abandoned newborn clinging to life in the woods near their home, and later come to know the young mother and learn her story.

BC FIC SHRShreve, Anita. The pilot's wife : a novel. 1st Back Bay paperback edition. Boston : Back Bay Books, 1999, c1998.Kathryn Lyon's life was peacefully routine, she had a good job and a happy marriage, so when she received the news that her pilot husband has died in a crash, her world was drastically changed. Even before his body is recovered the media discovers that her husband had a secret life, and Kathryn sets out to learn who her husband really was.

BC FIC SHUShusterman, Neal. Unwind. 1st Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers paperback edition. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2009, c2007.Three teens embark upon a cross-country journey in order to escape from a society that salvages body parts from children ages thirteen to eighteen.

BC FIC SIJDai, Sijie, 1954-. Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress. 1st Anchor Books ed. New York : Anchor Books, 2002, c2001.Two boys, moved to the country for "re-education" as part of Mao's Cultural Revolution, find little to amuse them, but things change when they discover a stash of Western classics in Chinese translation and use the stories of Balzac to capture the attention of the beautiful daughter of the local tailor.

BC FIC SIMSimsion, Graeme C. The Rosie project : a novel. First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.Don Tillman a profesor of genetics, sets up a project designed to find him the perfect wife, starting with a questionnaire that has to be adjusted a little as he goes along. Then he meets Rosie, who is everything he's not looking for in a wife, but she ends up his friend as he helps her try and find her biological father.

BC FIC SKRSkrypuch, Marsha Forchuk, author. Dance of the banished. First edition."Ali and his fiancée Zeynep dream about leaving their home in Anatolia and building a new life together in Canada. But their homeland is controlled by the Turkish government, which is on the brink of war with Britain and Russia. And although Ali finds passage to Canada to work, he is forced to leave Zeynep behind until he can earn enough to bring her out to join him. When the First World War breaks out and Canada joins Britain, Ali is declared an enemy alien. Unable to convince his captors that he is a refugee from an oppressive regime, he is thrown in an internment camp where he must count himself lucky to have a roof over his head and food to eat. Meanwhile, Zeynep is a horrified witness to the suffering of her Christian Armenian neighbours under the Young Turk revolutionary forces. Caught in a country that is destroying its own people, she is determined to save a precious few. But if her plan succeeds, will Zeynep still find a way to cross the ocean to search out Ali? And if she does, will he still be waiting for her?".

BC FIC SMISmith, Dodie, 1896-. I capture the castle. 1st A Wyatt Book for St. Martin's Press edition. New York : A Wyatt Book for St. Martin's Press, 1998, c1948.A reprint of the 1949 novel recounting the story of Cassandra Mortmain, a young woman living on the edge of poverty in a crumbling castle with her somewhat eccentric family, whose prospects begin to improve when new neighbors arrive from America.

BC FIC SMISmith, Heather, 1968-. Baygirl. Victoria, B.C. : Orca Book Publishers, 2013."Growing up in a picturesque Newfoundland fishing village should be idyllic for sixteen-year-old Kit Ryan, but living with an alcoholic father makes Kit's day-to-day life unpredictable and almost intolerable. When the 1992 cod moratorium forces her father out of a job, the tension between Kit and her father grows. Forced to leave their rural community, the family moves to the city, where they live with Uncle Iggy, a widower with problems of his own. Immediately pegged as a 'baygirl', Kit struggles to fit in, but longstanding trust issues threaten to hold her back when a boy named Elliot expresses an interest in her." -- publisher.

BC FIC STEThe Art of Racing. Toronto : Harper Pernnial, 2009.

BC FIC STESteinbeck, John, 1902-1968. The grapes of wrath. New York : Penguin Books, 1999, c1967.The story of a farm family's Depression-era journey from the Dustbowl of Oklahoma to the California migrant labor camps in search of a better life.

BC FIC STEStenson, Fred, 1951-. The trade. 1st U.S. ed. Toronto, Ont. ; : Groundwood Books, 2010, c2000.In 1822, the new governor of the territory held by the Blackfoot-speaking Indian tribes mounts an expedition to find a new source of beaver pelts and profits for the Hudson's Bay Company in order to help the company exercise its monopoly.

BC FIC STIStiefvater, Maggie, 1981-. The Scorpio Races. 1st edition. New York : Scholastic Press, 2011.Nineteen-year-old returning champion Sean Kendrick competes against Puck Connolly, the first girl ever to ride in the annual Scorpio Races, both trying to keep hold of their dangerous water horses long enough to make it to the finish line.

BC FIC STOStockett, Kathryn. The help. Berkley trade pbk. ed. New York : Berkley Books, 2011, c2009.Skeeter returns home to Mississippi from college in 1962 and begins to write stories about the African-American women that are found working in white households, which includes Aibileen, who grieves for the loss of her son while caring for her seventeenth white child, and Minny, Aibileen's sassy friend, the hired cook for a secretive woman who is new to town.

BC FIC SUMSuma, Nova Ren. The walls around us. 1st ed. Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin, 2015.Orianna and Violet are ballet dancers and best friends, but when the ballerinas who have been harassing Violet are murdered, Orianna is accused of the crime and sent to a juvenile detention center where she meets Amber and they experience supernatural events linking the girls together.

BC FIC TANTan, Amy. The bonesetter's daughter. 1st Ballantine Books domestic ed. New York : Ballantine, 2002, c2001.San Francisco ghostwriter Ruth Young finally begins to understand her Alzheimer's-afflicted mother LuLing's preoccupation with ghosts and curses when she reads Luling's writings of her dark backwoods childhood in 1920s China--where LuLing's mute, disfigured nursemaid committed suicide, and a nearby cave held what may have been the bones of the lost ancient hominid Peking Man.

BC FIC TASTashjian, Janet. The gospel according to Larry. New York : Dell Laurel-Leaf, [2003], c2001.Seventeen-year-old Josh, a loner-philosopher who wants to make a difference in the world, tries to maintain his secret identity as the author of a web site that is receiving national attention.

BC FIC TAYTaylor, Drew Hayden, 1962-. Motorcycles & sweetgrass : a novel. Vintage Canada edition, 2011. Toronto : Vintage Canada, 2011, c2010.Otter Lake is a sleepy Anishnawbe community where little happens. Until the day a handsome stranger pulls up astride a 1953 Indian Chief motorcycle - and turns Otter Lake completely upside down. Maggie, the Reserve's chief, is swept off her feet, but Virgil, her teenage son, is less than enchanted. Suspicious of the stranger's intentions, he teams up with his uncle Wayne - a master of aboriginal martial arts - to drive the stranger from the Reserve. And it turns out that the raccoons are willing to lend a hand.

BC FIC THIThien, Madeleine, 1974-. Do not say we have nothing : a novel. 1st American ed. 2016. New York : W. W. Norton & Co., 2016.A family of two generations in China who lived through Mao's cultural revolution piece together their fractured family in present-day Vancouver.

BC FIC THOThomas, Angie, author. The hate u give. First edition.Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters are taking to the streets in Khalil's name. Some cops and the local drug lord try to intimidate Starr and her family. What everyone wants to know is: what really went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr. But what Starr does-or does not-say could upend her community. It could also endanger her life.

BC FIC TOEToews, Miriam, 1964-. A complicated kindness : a novel. Toronto : Vintage Canada, [2007], c2004.Sixteen-year-old Nomi struggles not to give in to despair when her mother and sister flee their home in East Village, a Mennonite community in Manitoba, leaving her in the care of her increasingly depressed father.

BC FIC TOEToews, Miriam, 1964-. The flying Troutmans. Toronto : Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2008.When Hattie receives an SOS call in Paris from her eleven-year-old niece, she decides to return to Canada. But when she arrives back, Hattie is left to take care of her sister's children, Thebes and Logan. When she realizes that this may become a permanent arrangement, Hattie hatches a plan. Without much more than an old address to go on, the three of them set off on a wild road trip to find the kids' long-lost father.

BC FIC TOTToten, Teresa, 1955-. The unlikely hero of room 13B. [Toronto] : Doubleday Canada, c2013.Adam not only is trying to understand his OCD, while trying to balance his relationship with his divorced parents, but he's also trying to navigate through the issues that teenagers normally face, namely the perils of young love.

BC FIC TROTrope, Zoe. Please don't kill the freshman : a memoir. 1st HarperTempest pbk. ed. New York : HarperTempest, 2004, c2003.A memoir of the then-fifteen-year-old author's high school experience to that point, in which diary entries reflect her struggles, angst, and rebellion.

BC FIC URQUrquhart, Jane. Away : a novel. New York : Penguin, 1995, c1993.In the mid-nineteenth century, Mary leaves her island off the northern Irish coast and travels to Canada to escape the potato famine, where her daughters are forced to deal with their mother's haunting visions of a sailor who died in her arms years ago.

BC FIC VANVan Draanen, Wendelin. Flipped. 1st Knopf trade pbk. ed. New York : A.A. Knopf :, 2003, c2001.In alternating chapters, two teenagers describe how their feelings about themselves, each other, and their families have changed over the years.

BC FIC VANVanderhaeghe, Guy, 1951-. The Englishman's boy. Toronto, Ontario : McClelland & Stewart, c1996.Contains two parallel narratives, relating the acts of a group of wolf-hunters who sought revenge after being attacked by Indians, while at the same time telling of the psychological journey of the author who is trying to write their story.

BC FIC VANVanderhaeghe, Guy, 1951-. The last crossing. Toronto : McClelland & Stewart, c2002.Set in the second half of the nineteenth century, in the American and Canadian West and in Victorian England, this is a tale of interwoven lives and stories. Charles, a disillusioned artist, and Addington, a disgraced military captain, enlist the services of a guide to help find their brother Simon, who has gone missing in the wilds of the American West. The group soon grows to include a sycophantic American journalist, a beautiful woman who wants to avenge her sister's vicious murder, a Civil War veteran searching for salvation, and a saloonkeeper.

BC FIC VLAVlahos, Len. The Scar Boys : a novel. New York : Egmont USA, 2014.Written as a college admission essay, eighteen-year-old Harry Jones recounts a childhood defined by the hideous scars he hid behind, and how forming a band brought self-confidence, friendship, and his first kiss.

BC FIC VONVonnegut, Kurt. Mother night. Dial Press trade paperback ed. New York, N.Y. : Dial Press, 2006, c1966.Truth and justice are blurred when American spy Howard Campbell is tried in Israel as a Nazi war criminal after World War II.

BC FIC VONVonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse-five, or, The children's crusade : a duty-dance with death. New York : Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1991, c1969.A fourth-generation German-American is tortured by his memories of the firebombing of Dresden in 1944 which he witnessed while a prisoner of war.

BC FIC WALWaltman, Kevin. Next. 1st ed. El Paso, Tex. : Cinco Puntos Press, [2013].Indiana basketball prodigy Derrick Bowen--D-Bow to his friends--is impatient to start his freshman year, but his coach favors a senior for a guard spot; meanwhile, pressure at home builds for D-Bow to transfer from his neighborhood school to an exclusive prep school.

BC FIC WALWalton, Leslye J. (Leslye Jo Anne). The strange & beautiful sorrows of Ava Lavender. 1st edition. Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2014.Ava Lavender tells the story of her young life starting with her birth in 1944 Seattle, Washington; she was born with wings.

BC FIC WEIWein, Elizabeth. Code name Verity. Doubleday Canada pbk. ed. [Toronto] : Doubleday Canada, 2013, c2012.In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must to survive while keeping secret all that she can.

BC FIC WEIWeir, Andy. The Martian : a novel. 1st pbk. ed. New York : Broadway Books, [2014].Astronaut Mark Watney is stranded and completely alone on Mars, with no way to even signal Earth that he's alive, but Mark isn't ready to give up and drawing on his engineering skills and determination, he faces each obstacle with resourcefulness, but will it be enough for him to survive?.

BC FIC WELWells, Rebecca. Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood : a novel. 1st HarperPerennial ed. New York : HarperPerennial, 1997, c1996.Siddalee Walker, a successful theater director, is thrown into a void of uncertainty when she has a falling out with her mother, Vivi, over a New York Times article in which Vivi is characterized as an abusive parent, and the Ya-Yas, Vivi's gang of lifelong girlfriends, conspire to restore the mother-daughter relationship.

BC FIC WESWesterfeld, Scott. So yesterday : a novel. New York : Razorbill, c2004.Hunter Braque, a New York City teenager who is paid by corporations to spot what is "cool," combines his analytical skills with girlfriend Jen's creative talents to find a missing person and thwart a conspiracy directed at the heart of consumer culture.

BC FIC WESWesterfeld, Scott. Uglies. Simon Pulse ed. New York : Simon Pulse, 2011, c2005.Just before their sixteenth birthdays, when they will will be transformed into beauties whose only job is to have a great time, Tally's best friend runs away and Tally must find her and turn her in, or never become pretty at all.

BC FIC WIEWiersema, Robert J. Before I wake. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2007.Simon and Karen Barrett struggle over how to protect their only child, thirteen-year-old Sherry, and help the others who flock to her, when she develops miraculous healing powers after a hit-and-run accident; meanwhile, the driver, Henry Denton, attempts suicide but cannot die.

BC FIC WIEWiesel, Elie, 1928-. Dawn. Pbk. ed. New York : Hill and Wang, 2006.An eighteen-year-old terrorist spends a night waiting to kill an English officer in Palestine as a reprisal for Britain's execution of a Jewish prisoner.

BC FIC WILJustesen, Kim Williams. The deepest blue. Terre Haute, IN : Tanglewood, 2013."When Mike's dad is killed in a car wreck, Mike wants to stay in his hometown and live with his dad's girlfriend, who has been like a mother to him for the last five years. But Mike's mother reappears in his life and demands that he return to her custody and live on the other side of the country with a family he doesn't know"--Provided by publisher.

BC FIC WILWilliamson, Lisa, 1980-. The art of being normal. 1st edition. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), 2016.David Piper, always an outsider, forms an unlikely friendship with Leo Denton who, from the first day at his new school wants only to be invisible, but when David's deepest secret gets out, that he wants to be a girl, things get very messy for both of them.

BC FIC WYNWynne-Jones, Tim. The boy in the burning house. 1st mass market ed. Toronto : Groundwood Books, 2002.Trying to solve the mystery of his father's disappearance from their rural Canadian community, fourteen-year-old Jim gets help from the disturbed Ruth Rose, who suspects her stepfather, a local pastor.

BC FIC WYNWynne-Jones, Tim. The emperor of any place. 1st ed. 2015. Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2015."When Evan's father dies, Evan finds a hand-bound yellow book on his desk--the book his father had been reading when he passed away. It is the diary of a Japanese soldier stranded on a small Pacific island in World War II. Why was his father reading it? Who was the American soldier also stranded there? And what could this possibly mean for Evan?"--Dust jacket.

BC FIC YOUYoung, William P. The shack : a novel. Los Angeles, CA : Windblown Media, c2007.Confluence of paths -- Gathering dark -- Tipping point -- Great sadness -- Guess who's coming to dinner -- Piece of "pi" -- God on the dock -- Breakfast of champions -- Long time ago, in a garden far, far away -- Wade in the water -- Here come da judge -- In the belly of the beasts -- Meeting of hearts -- Verbs and other freedoms -- Festival of friends -- Morning of sorrows -- Choices of the heart -- Outbound ripples -- After words. After Missy is abducted during a vacation and evidence of her murder shows up at a shack in the forests of Oregon, Mackenzie Philips, her father, receives a strange note inviting him to return to the scene of the tragedy where he wrestles with nightmarish religious questions.

BC FIC ZINZindel, Paul. The pigman. New York : Bantam Books, [1983], c1968.Two high school sophomores from unhappy homes form a close friendship with a lonely old man who has a terrible secret.

BC FIC ZUSZusak, Markus. The book thief. 1st American edition. New York : Knopf :, c2006.Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.

BC FIC ZUSZusak, Markus. I am the messenger. 1st Knopf trade paperback ediition. New York : Knopf :, 2006.After capturing a bank robber, nineteen-year-old cab driver Ed Kennedy begins receiving mysterious messages that direct him to addresses where people need help, which helps him start to get over his lifelong feeling of worthlessness.

BC GROGroth, Darren, 1969-. Are you seeing me? [Victoria, B.C.] : Orca Book Publishers, 2015.Twins Justine and Perry have left their home in Australia and embarked on a roadtrip in the Pacific Northwest.

BC PSYCH CSICsikszentmihalyi, Mihaly. Flow : the psychology of optimal experience. 1st HarperPerennial Modern Classics ed. New York : HarperPerennial, 2008, c1990.Preface -- 1. Happiness revisited -- Introduction -- Overview -- The roots of discontent -- The shields of culture -- Reclaiming experience -- Paths of liberation -- 2. The anatomy of consciousness -- The limits of consciousness -- Attention as psychic energy -- Enter the self -- Disorder in consciousness : psychic entropy -- Order in consciousness : flow -- Complexity and the growth of the self -- 3. Enjoyment and the quality of life -- Pleasure and enjoyment -- The elements of enjoyment -- The autotelic experience -- 4. The conditions of flow -- Flow activities -- Flow and culture -- The autotelic personality -- The people of flow -- 5. The body in flow -- Higher, faster, stronger -- The joys of movement -- Sex as flow -- The ultimate control : yoga and the martial arts -- Flow through the senses : the joys of seeing -- The flow of music -- The joys of tasting -- 6. The flow of thought -- The mother of science -- The rules of the games of the mind -- The play of words -- Befriending Clio -- The delights of science -- Loving wisdom -- Amateurs and professionals -- The challenge of lifelong learning -- 7. Work as flow -- Autotelic workers -- Autotelic jobs -- The paradox of work -- The waste of free time -- 8. Enjoying solitude and other people -- The conflict between being alone and being with others -- The pain of loneliness -- Taming solitude -- Flow and the family -- Enjoying friends -- The wider community -- 9. Cheating chaos -- Tragedies transformed -- Coping with stress -- The power of dissipative structures -- The autotelic self : a summary -- 10. The making of meaning -- What meaning means -- Cultivating purpose -- Forging resolve -- Recovering harmony -- The unification of meaning in life themes -- Notes -- References. A summary of research on the positive aspects of human experience including joy, creativity, and life involvement which the author calls "flow".

BC PSYCH DUHDuhigg, Charles. The power of habit : why we do what we do in life and business. Toronto : Anchor Canada, 2014.The habit cure -- The habits of individuals -- The habit loop : how habits work -- The craving brain : how to create new habits -- The golden rule of habit change : why transformation occurs -- The habits of successful organizations -- Keystone habits, or The balla of Paul O'Neill : which habits matter most -- Starbucks and the habit of success : when willpower becomes automatic -- The power of a crisis : how leaders create habits through accident and design -- How Target knows what you want before you do : when companies predict (and manipulate) habits -- The habits of societies -- Saddleback Church and the Montgomery bus boycott -- The neurology of free will : are we responsible for our habits? -- Afterword: Some things learned about weight loss, smoking, procrastination, and teaching -- A reader's guide to using these ideas. "Why habits exist and how they can be changed. Engrossing narratives that take us from the boardrooms of Procter & Gamble to sidelines of the NFL to the front lines of the civil rights movement, Duhigg presents a whole new understanding of human nature and its potential. At its core, The Power of Habit contains this argument: The key to exercising regularly, losing weight, being more productive, and achieving success is understanding how habits work. As Duhigg shows, by harnessing this new science, we can transform our businesses, our communities, and our lives"--Provided by publisher.

BC PSYCH GUIGuillebeau, Chris. The art of non-conformity : set your own rules, live the life you want, and change the world. 1st ed. New York : Penguin Group, 2010.The remarkable life -- Sleepwalkers and the living world -- Setting the terms of your unconventional life -- Smashing through the brick wall of fear -- How to fight authority and win -- Reclaiming work -- Competence is your security -- Graduate school vs. the blogosphere -- The power of your own small army -- The personal finance journey -- The power of convergence -- Radical exclusion and the quest for abundance -- Contrarian adventures -- Your legacy starts now -- Conclusion: dangerous ideas -- Postscript: the most important thing. Explains how to live a life that is far from ordinary, discussing creative self-employment, radical goal-setting, contrarian travel, and embracing life as an adventure.

BC PSYCH LAMBstan- dzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935-. The art of happiness : a handbook for living. New York : Riverhead Books, 1998.Through conversations, stories, and meditations, the Dalai Lama of Tibet discusses how people can become happier and explains the methods he used to rid his life of anxiety, insecurity, anger, and discouragement.

BC PSYCH LYULyubomirsky, Sonja. The how of happiness : a new approach to getting the life you want. New York : Penguin Books, 2008, c2007.How to attain real and lasting happiness -- Happiness activities -- Secrets to abiding happiness. Provides a comprehensive guide that shows how to increase happiness, with advice on the importance of staying active, reaching goals, and overcoming obstacles.

BC PSYCH LYULyubomirsky, Sonja. The myths of happiness : what should make you happy, but doesn't, what shouldn't make you happy, but does. New York : Penguin Books, 2014.Lyubomirsky isolates the major turning points of adult life, looking to both achievements and failures to reveal that our misconceptions about the impact of such events is perhaps the greatest threat to our long-term well-being.

BC PSYCH MATMaté, Gabor. In the realm of hungry ghosts : close encounters with addiction. 1st ed. Toronto : Knopf Canada, c2008.Hellbound trarin -- Physician, heal thyself -- A different state: the addicted brain -- How the addicted brain develops -- The addiction process and the addictive personality -- Imagining a human reality beyond the war on drugs -- The ecology of healing. "Excellent.... One of the book's strengths is Maté's detailed and compassionate characterization of the afflicted addicts he treats, but this is not just a memoir. Rather, using his own experience as well as the most advanced recent research, he attempts to delineate the closely interrelated psychological, social, and neurological dimensions of addiction.... A calm, unjudging, compassionate attentiveness to what is happening within." —The Walrus. "A harrowingly honest, compassionate, sometimes angry look at addiction and the people whose lives have been disordered by it." —Ottawa Citizen.

BC PSYCH MEDMedina, John, 1956-. Brain rules : 12 principles for surviving and thriving at work, home and school. 2nd ed., Updated and expanded. Seattle, WA, U.S.A. : Pear Press, [2014].Discusses how the brain works and how to treat it well, including getting enough exercise and sleep, how to learn effectively, and how the brain evolved, and presents twelve principles for optimum brain performance at work, home, and school.

BC PSYCH REIReivich, Karen. The resilience factor : 7 keys for finding your inner strength and overcoming life's hurdles. New York : Three Rivers Press, [2002]."Resilience is a crucial ingredient... to a happy, healthy life. More than anything else, it's what determines how high we rise above what threatens to wear us down, from battling an illness, to bolstering a marriage, to carrying on after a national crisis. Everyone needs resilience, and now two... psychologists share seven... techniques for enhancing our capacity to weather even the cruelest setbacks."--Amazon.

BC PSYCH RONRonson, Jon, 1967-. The psychopath test : a journey through the madness industry. 1st Riverhead trade pbk. ed. New York : Riverhead Books, 2012, c2011.The author explains how his research into a potential hoax being played on scientists prompted him to explore an asylum for the criminally insane, where he met a wide variety of individuals and learned that the lines between ordinary and mentally ill are not always clear.

BC PSYCH RUBGretchen Rubin. BETTER THAN BEFORE : What I learned about making and breaking habits - to sleep more, quit sugar, procrastinate less, and generally build a happier life. Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication : Anchor Canada - A Penguin Random House Compan7, 2015.

BC PSYCH SELSeligman, Martin E. P. Authentic happiness : using the new Positive Psychology to realize your potential for lasting fulfillment. 1st Free Press ed. New York : Free Press, 2004, c2002.The author, leading spokesman for the scientifically based Positive Psychology movement, provides an understanding of positive emotions and how to increase them, and argues that authentic happiness comes from identifying and cultivating fundamental strengths and using them everyday in work, love, play, and parenting.

BC PSYCH SELSeligman, Martin E. P. Learned optimism : how to change your mind and your life. 1st Vintage Books ed. New York : Vintage Books, 2006, c1998.Two ways of looking at life -- Learning to be helpless -- Explaining misfortune -- Ultimate pessimism -- How you think, how you feel -- Success at work -- Children and parents -- School -- Sports -- Health -- Politics, religion, and culture -- The optimistic life -- Helping your child escape pessimism -- The optimistic organization -- Flexible optimism. Shows how to use "flexible optimism" to maximize personal achievement, improve health, and help your children reach their full potential.

BC PSYCH SELSeligman, Martin E. P. The optimistic child : a proven program to safeguard children against depression and build lifelong resilience. 1st Houghton Mifflin pbk. ed. Boston [Mass.] : Houghton Mifflin, 2007.Why children need optimism -- Where boomer child rearing went wrong -- Is your child an optimist or a pessimist? -- How to raise children to optimism and mastery -- The children of the twenty-first century. Offers a program for parents and teachers to teach children the skills of optimism needed to combat depression. Based on the results of a long-term research project on preventing depression.

BC PSYCH TOLTolle, Eckhart, 1948-. A new earth : awakening to your life's purpose. New York : Dutton, c2005.The flowering of human consciousness -- Ego : the current state of humanity -- The core of ego -- Role-playing : the many faces of the ego -- The pain-body -- Breaking free -- Finding who you truly are -- The discovery of inner space -- Your inner purpose -- A new earth. Explains that the current state of humanity is erroneously and dangerously ego-centric and argues for a shift in consciousness that can reveal how the modern world can become more sane and loving.

BC RICRichler, Mordecai, 1931-2001. The apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz. New Canadian Library edition. Toronto : McClelland & Stewart, 2001, c1959.Duddy, the third generation of a Jewish immigrant family in Montreal, learns about life and love while trying to be someone special.

BC STESterling, Shirley. My name is Seepeetza. Vancouver : Douglas & McIntyre, c1992.At six years old, Seepeetza is taken from her happy family life on Joyaska Ranch to live as a boarder at the Kamloops Indian Residential School. Life at the school is not easy, but Seepeetza still manages to find some bright spots. Always, thoughts of home make her school life bearable. An honest, inside look at life in an Indian residential school in the 1950s, and how one indomitable young spirit survived it.